programming the star

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1 total messages Started by ucbvax!Hank.Walker Fri, 12 Jun 1981 15:25

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Author: ucbvax!Hank.Walker
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1981 15:25

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If Xerox plans to sell lots of Stars, it is essential that they provide
a decent programming language with it.  Otherwise it will be just a word
processor, or maybe a little more.  The reason for the language is not so
that the users can program it, but so that OEMs (original equipment
manufacturers) can provide specialized applications.  Xerox cannot hope
to provide the thousands of applications packages.  Selling to OEMs, who
know what the customer needs better than the manufacturer, is how DEC got
where it is today.  By the way, I'm told that the Star is 20 to 60% faster
than a Perq.

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