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2 unusual facts about Butler Lampson


WYSIWYG

Bravo, a document preparation program for the Alto produced at Xerox PARC by Butler Lampson, Charles Simonyi and colleagues in 1974, is generally considered the first program to incorporate WYSIWYG technology, displaying text with formatting (e.g. with justification, fonts, and proportional spacing of characters).

Xerox Daybreak

Daybreak was the last machine released in the D* (pronounced D-Star) series of machines, at least some of which shared an instruction set architecture designed by Butler Lampson known as Wildflower.



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