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Xerox Star

Human–Computer Interaction

The 8010, 1981: the Alto’s commercial descendant. A graphical interface three years before the Macintosh, at roughly thirty times the price.

Xerox Star — The 8010, 1981: the Alto’s commercial descendant. A graphical interface three years before the Macintosh, at roughly thirty times the price.

This entry is a stub. It will be written out in full when a Chromix article calls for it. What belongs here: what Xerox Star actually did, why it mattered at the time, and what it made possible afterwards — each claim carrying its own source.

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Xerox PARC, 1970. The invention that fit, and the ones that walked out.
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