Lars Brinkhoff
Lars Brinkhoff
I will note there is no official stance on what is supported or not. The project, such that it is, is a vaguely connected set of people with write access...
> If I could pick the “default user story” it would be “I want an ITS prompt, ideally with all of the cool stuff that used to be installed on...
Closing in favor of #2315.
Made by Xerox. Connected to an Alto running a program called Spruce. Accepts XGP scan files.
From HUMOR; DOVER POEM: Dover, oh Dover, arisen from dead. Dover, oh Dover, awoken from bed. Dover, oh Dover, welcome back to the Lab. Dover, oh Dover, we've missed your...
People reminiscing about the Dover and XGP: http://philip.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0006XJ
More Dover and XGP info. Like to Spruce source code. http://xeroxalto.computerhistory.org/xerox_alto_file_system_archive.html
The Dover helped create the GNU project: > In 1980, Stallman and some other hackers at the AI Lab were refused the software's source code for the Xerox 9700 laser...
@livingcomputermuseum's ContrAlto will run Spruce. It emulates the Dover hardware interface and generates PDFs.
> The Dover was a prototype for Xerox’s first commercial laser printer, the 9700, which printed 120 pages per minute on standard paper. http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/input-output/14/351