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Alto: A personal computer

Thacker et al., 1979

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4339669305962364876
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Thacker C
MacCreight E
Lampson B
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The Alto is a small computer system designed in early 1973 as an experiment in personal computing. its principal characteristics, some of the design choices that led to the implementation, and some of the applications for which the Alto has been used are …
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