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Joe Pasqua<p>How best to accommodate the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Xerox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xerox</span></a> 6085 display resolution of 1152x861 on an 8" 1024x768 display for my small scale <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/XeroxStar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XeroxStar</span></a> replica? Scaling down looks lousy (also up to 1280x1024).</p><p>I’m most interested in the XDE, so my plan is to clip to 1024x768 and set my user.cm to arrange my windows within the visible space. I added code so pressing a hotkey brings up scrollbars, tools, &amp; status.</p><p>I can also run the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GlobalView" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalView</span></a> engine which lets me set the screen size to anything.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tajo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tajo</span></a></p>
Joe Pasqua<p>As I start to think about a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Xerox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xerox</span></a> 8010 (Star) small-scale replica, I remembered I have a picture of my display from 1983 (actually a picture of a framed screenshot). It has most of my standard running programs and part of my user.cm!</p><p>I'll give 100, no 500, internet points to anyone who can identify the “icon” highlighted in red in the photo. It's a hack I wrote four decades ago as part of the Pilot Kernel team.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/xeroxstar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xeroxstar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dandelion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dandelion</span></a></p>
Joe Pasqua<p>This is the Dwarf emulator running the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Xerox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xerox</span></a> Development Environment (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/XDE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XDE</span></a>) on a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/raspberrypi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>raspberrypi</span></a>. It's an 8" display at 1024x768. I made minor mods to display full screen with emulator controls hidden until needed.</p><p>Unlike DarkStar, Dwarf is a Mesa PrincOps emulator, not a generic microcode emulator. That makes it less flexible, but a lot faster. This is the right tradeoff for me since I spent my Xerox life in the Mesa world &amp; the additional speed is handy when running <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/XeroxStar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XeroxStar</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
Paolo Amoroso<p>This 1989 retrospective of Xerox Star written by its designers and developers is fascinating. It explains the design decisions, tells the history of the system, and candidly admits the technological and business mistakes.</p><p><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2953879_The_Xerox_Star_A_Retrospective" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">researchgate.net/publication/2</span><span class="invisible">953879_The_Xerox_Star_A_Retrospective</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/xeroxstar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xeroxstar</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/gui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gui</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
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