Principles of interactive computer graphics (2nd ed.)
Principles of interactive computer graphics (2nd ed.)
Testing and Debugging Custom Integrated Circuits
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
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The Soul of a New Machine
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SCALD: Structured Computer-Aided Logic Design
DAC '78 Proceedings of the 15th Design Automation Conference
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ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
SIGGRAPH '86 Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Microprogrammable processor for object-oriented architecture
ISCA '86 Proceedings of the 13th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Swamp: a fast processor for Smalltalk-80
OOPLSA '86 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
Fast, small, and static combinatorial CMOS circuits
DAC '87 Proceedings of the 24th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
Color gamut mapping and the printing of digital color images
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
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I3D '90 Proceedings of the 1990 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics
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OOPSLA '91 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
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DAC '88 Proceedings of the 25th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
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DAC '88 Proceedings of the 25th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
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25 years of the international symposia on Computer architecture (selected papers)
SIGGRAPH '88 Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Architecture of SOAR: Smalltalk on a RISC
ISCA '84 Proceedings of the 11th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
VLSI based design principles for MIMD multiprocessor computers with distributed memory management
ISCA '84 Proceedings of the 11th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
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In late 1975, members of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center embarked on the specification of a high-performance successor to the Alto personal minicomputer, in use since 1973. After four years, the resulting machine, called the Dorado, was in use within the research community at PARC. This paper begins with an overview of the design goals, architecture, and implementation of the Dorado and then provides a retrospective view and critique of the Dorado project as a whole. The major machine architectural features are evaluated, other project aspects such as design automation and management structures are explained, a chronological history with milestones is included, and a variety of accomplishments, red herrings, and shortfalls is discussed. The paper concludes with some speculations on what the project might have done differently and what might be done differently today instead of in the late 1970s. Although more than a dozen scientists and technicians contributed to the project, the evaluative and speculative parts of this paper are the sole responsibility of the author.