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Re: darkstar - a Xerox Star emulator

From Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers, comp.sys.xerox, comp.lang.lisp, comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject Re: darkstar - a Xerox Star emulator
Date 2019-01-30 17:00 +0000
Organization Piglet's Pickles & Preserves
Message-ID <gbe3hfFlut8U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References <q2sh9k$t93$1@sdf.lonestar.org>

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On 2019-01-30, Stephen M. Jones <martians@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> As a follow up to ContrAlto - a Xerox Alto emulator, Josh Dersch at 
> Living Computers, Seattle has just released a new Xerox Star emulator
> that he called Darkstar.  Darkstar faithfully emulates the Star 
> hardware and is quite complete with this initial release.  
>
> One issue that Josh anticipated was that of Viewpoint licensing .... 
> fortunately a set of master/permanent keys showed up out of the woodwork
> thanks to a former PARC engineer once Darkstar was announced.
>
> You can read about Darkstar at the Living Computers Engineering Blog:
> https://engblg.livingcomputers.org
>
> You can get Darkstar at GitHub:
> https://github.com/livingcomputermuseum/Darkstar
>
> Disk images can be found at Bitsavers 
>
> Have Fun!

Wow. I am deeply, deeply impressed.


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darkstar - a Xerox Star emulator martians@sdf.lonestar.org (Stephen M. Jones) - 2019-01-30 15:53 +0000
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