Xerox Daybreak
Xerox Daybreak (a.k.a. Xerox 6085, Xerox 1186) is a workstation computer developed by Xerox in the 1980s. It ran the ViewPoint (later GlobalView) GUI and was used extensively throughout Xerox until being replaced by Suns and PCs. Despite being years ahead of its time it was never a major commercial success, the proprietary closed architecture and Xerox's reluctance to release the Mesa development environment for general use stifling any 3rd party development. A fully-configured 6085 came with an 80Mb hard disk, 3.7Mb of RAM, a 5¼-inch floppy disk drive, an Ethernet controller, and a PC emulator card containing an 80186 CPU.
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