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I originally accepted this keynote honor for five reasons: to respond to Alan Perlis' request (he told me I could present anything from a new taxonomy to personal reminiscences); second, to identify the important artifacts that should be preserved in ...

The ideas and developments reviewed briefly are mainly from six sources: (1) the M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory during the middle and late 1950s, (2) Bolt Beranek and Newman in 1957-1962, (3) the ARPA program in 1962-1964, (4) IBM Research in 1964-1966, (5) ...

In 1964 only large mainframe computers existed, each with its own separate set of users. If you were lucky the computer was timeshared, but even then you could not go far away since the terminals were hardwired to it or connected by local phone line. ...

The concept of a mathematical laboratory has been developing throughout the lifetime of computers. The capabilities made available in systems supporting these laboratories range from symbolic integration, differentiation, polynomial and power series ...

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Between 1972 and 1980, the first distributed personal computing system was built at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. The system was composed of a number of Alto workstations connected by an Ethernet local network. It also included servers that ...

The personal distributed computing system based on the Alto and the Ethernet was a major effort to make computers help people to think and communicate. The paper describes the complex and diverse collection of software that was built to pursue this goal,...

The LINC represents one of the earliest attempts to put the stored program computer into the form of a general instrument for laboratory use. In a deliberate departure from the technology of Timesharing then just beginning nearly two decades of ...

Scientific computing systems for individuals were pioneered earl; at Hewlett-Packard. beginning with the 9l00A Desktop Calculator in 1968. Extensions of this first machine were soon seen in Personal Peripherals. such as Printers. Tape Cartridges. and ...

Scientific computing systems for individuals were pioneered early at Hewlett-Packard, beginning with the 9100A Desktop Calculator in 1968. Extensions of this first machine were soon seen in Personal Peripherals, such as Printers, Tape Cartridges, and ...

From its beginning, the technology of personal workstations has been driven by visions of a future in which people would work in intimate partnership with computer systems on significant intellectual tasks. These visions have been expressed in various ...