The Xerox 6085 running Viewpoint is the direct successor of the Xerox Star (8010). The DigiBarn museum has a special interest in the lineage of Xerox workstations but especially the Star - Viewpoint - Globalview series as these represented the most complete implementation of the "Desktop Metaphor" of any systems until the advent of mature Desktop graphical interfaces later on the Mac and PC/Unix/Linux in the 1990s. These systems were a full 15 years ahead of their time with sophisticated WYSIWYG document composition, built in Ethernet, email, scanning networked laser printing, development environments including Smalltalk, and much more.
| Xerox Star Branch | ||
| Preceded by Xerox Star (8010) |
Viewpoint (6085) | Followed by --- |
| GlobalView Branch | ||
| Preceded by --- |
Viewpoint (6085) | Followed by Viewpoint 2.0 |
| Tajo XDE Branch | ||
| Influenced by Tajo XDE |
Viewpoint (6085) | Influenced --- |
| Photoshop Branch | ||
| Influenced by Doodle |
Viewpoint (6085) | Influenced --- |
References[]
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/xerox6085/index.html
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