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It would be interesting to see a comparison of the changes from the Alto and Star to the Macintosh, and the changes from the Macintosh to Windows 1.0-3.0-95.

However, I can never seem to find solid info on the Alto or Star, except occasionally a fond remembrance of awesome equation handling or something similar.

I think there is an Alto emulator out there. I never successfully booted it however. There is also a Star emulator, made by Xerox, that runs on Windows, but I also never successfully booted it to the desktop.

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