The Xerox Alto Computer, September 1981, byte magazine

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Document Outline

• Cover
• Index
• In This Issue
• Editorial: Odds and Beginnings
• Letters
• Book Reviews
• A Look at NCC 81
• Ciarcia;s Circuit Cellar: Build an Unlimited-Vocabulary Speech Synthesizer
• Review: The Big Board A Z80 System in Kit Form
• The Xerox Alto Computer
• Tree Searching Part 1: Basic Techniques
• Book Review: Turtle Geometry
• BYTE's Bugs 
• One Step Forward Three Steps Backup Computing in the US Space Program
• Review: Misosys Software's DISKMOD Put Radio Shack's Editor/Assembler on Disk
• Review: MINCE A Text Editor
• Changing a BASIC FOR ... NEXT Loop into a REPEAT . . . UNTIL Loop
• Artificial Intelligence
• A High-Level Language Benchmark
• Science Fiction's Intelligent Computers
• Symbolic Differentiation a la LISP
• Knowledge-Based Expert Systems Come of Age
• The Atari Tutorial Part 1: The Display List
• Natural-Language Processing The Field in Perspective
• BYTELINES
• Ask BYTE
• Books Received
• Clubs and Newsleters
• Event Queue
• Software Received
• BYTE's Arcade
  • Big Five Software - Attack Force, Cosmic Fighter, Calaxy Invasion  
  • The Prisonser
• Three Microcomputer LISPs
• The Emperor's Old Clothes
• Micro Computers and the IRS
• Add Dual Trace and Delayed Sweep to Your Oscilloscope
• An Almost Optimum Z80 Memory Test Program
• How to Build an Inexpensive Cassette Level Indicator
• Interactive Fiction: Six Micro Stories
• The Robot
• Whats New?
• Classified Ads