Difference between revisions of "Xerox 860 Information Processing System"

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The Xerox 860 Information Processing System (usually referred to as the Xerox 860 IPS) was a very early workstation from Xerox.

It came with custom software from Xerox, including a WYSIWYG screen editor, but CP/M, and applications which ran under it, were also available.

The CPU was an Intel 8085. The 860 came standard with 96KB of main memory; it could optionally be increased to 128KB. It came with a CRT video display, which could display up to 70 lines, of 102 characters each. Secondary storage was two 8" floppy disk drives. A Diablo printer could be shared between several 860's. Ethernet was also supported.

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−	The '''Xerox 860 Information Processing System''' (usually referred to as the '''Xerox 860 ~~IPs~~''') was a very early [[workstation]] from [[Xerox]].	+	The '''Xerox 860 Information Processing System''' (usually referred to as the '''Xerox 860 IPS''') was a very early [[workstation]] from [[Xerox]].

	It came with custom software from Xerox, including a [[What You See Is What You Get\|WYSIWYG]] [[screen editor]], but [[CP/M]], and [[application]]s which ran under it, were also available.		It came with custom software from Xerox, including a [[What You See Is What You Get\|WYSIWYG]] [[screen editor]], but [[CP/M]], and [[application]]s which ran under it, were also available.