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Xerox Star - Hardware Description | | Xerox Star - Hardware Description: Encyclopedia II - Xerox Star - Hardware Description | | Initially the Star software was developed on a hardware platform dubbed the Dolphin, however the complexity of the software eventually overwhelmed its limited configuration. At one point in Star's development, it would take more than one half hour to reboot the system.
The eventual Star workstation hardware was known as a Dandelion, or Dlion, based on the "Wildflower" architecture paper by Butler Lampson. Its microprogrammed, bit-sliced CPU ran a ...
See also:Xerox Star, Xerox Star - Background, Xerox Star - User Interface, Xerox Star - The Development Process, Xerox Star - Hardware Description, Xerox Star - Marketing of the Star, Xerox Star - Legacy of the Star | | | Xerox Star, Xerox Star - Background, Xerox Star - Hardware Description, Xerox Star - Legacy of the Star, Xerox Star - Marketing of the Star, Xerox Star - The Development Process, Xerox Star - User Interface | | |
| | | Xerox Star: Encyclopedia II - Xerox Star - Hardware Description
Xerox Star - Hardware Description
Initially the Star software was developed on a hardware platform dubbed the Dolphin, however the complexity of the software eventually overwhelmed its limited configuration. At one point in Star's development, it would take more than one half hour to reboot the system.
The eventual Star workstation hardware was known as a Dandelion, or Dlion, based on the "Wildflower" architecture paper by Butler Lampson. Its microprogrammed, bit-sliced CPU ran a virtual machine for the Mesa programming language.
The system had 384KB memory (expandable to 1.5MB), a 10MB, 29MB or 40MB hard drive, an 8" floppy drive, mouse and an Ethernet connection. The 17" CRT display (black and white) was large by standards at the time. It was meant to be able to display two 8.5"x11" pages side by side in actual size.
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