Fred,
Since you're keen to have the facts straight :-) > Actually, no, they didnt. Xerox PARC did a private demo > session for a number of interested parties on their ALTOS > system, which included the That would be the ALTO (and not "Altos", which was a completely different kettle of fish). I know it would be Alto because I kept two of these until my office was relocated at the beginning of 1991. By the time I started with the Alto (1979), BCPL had gone, being replaced by Mesa as the programming language. One day someone will write something to replace Mesa ..... I live in hope. > PARC eventually was disbanded after most of the key With respect, that news is going to come as something of a shock to all those folk who still work there today, Fred! Thanks, and regards - Iain
