<story><title>The PERQ Computer</title><url>https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/313862.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>trebligdivad</author><text>I scrounged one in ~1991 from the back corridors of Manchester Uni; fun machine; the CPU was a bitsliced type, common at the time using AMD chips, the microcode was loaded at boot (hence the different microcodes on the different OSs).  It used a z80 on the IO board to get things started and load the microcode off disc.  The UI on PNX was pretty nice as well for a machine with 1MB of RAM.
My Perq 1, had it&amp;#x27;s 14&amp;quot; belt driven hard drive 27MB (early Seagate), with PNX on - try fitting a Unix system with a GUI on that these days!</text></comment>
<story><title>The PERQ Computer</title><url>https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/313862.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jll29</author><text>I was not aware that between Alto and Lisa there was the PERQ, a first commercial attempt, so thanks for point that out.&lt;p&gt;Of course the deeper you dig anywhere, the more complexity gets unearthed, and the more fair credit must be distributed across more clever
engineers, dilluting the &amp;quot;single genius&amp;quot; picture that movie makers and
often sadly also journalists try to portray (&amp;quot;reality distortion field&amp;quot;).&lt;p&gt;I would quite like a minimalistic b&amp;#x2F;w GUI as the PERQ had on the screen shot.&lt;p&gt;Leaving out all the transparency&amp;#x2F;rounded corners nonsense this should be bleeding fast, too, with today&amp;#x27;s graphics capabilities.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: typo fixed</text></comment>