Lilith is the name in the year 1980 of Swiss computer scientist Niklaus Wirth to the ETH Zurich of developed computer system. Basis was a 16-Bit-Prozessor with one for module a2 optimized instruction set.

Also the pertinent operating system Medos-2 was programmed by its developer and different one.

Wirth had become acquainted with 1977/78 at the research center Palo Alto Research of institutes (Parc) of Xerox the trend-setting architecture of the Alto workstations, which already had mouse, diagram screen and Fenstertechnik. After its return Wirth began the self-development of such a workstation with its group, whereby the CO development was operated by hardware and software. In this way module a2, the successor were generated of Pascal, as system language and as operating system Medos. The compiler provided thereby an intermediate code (so-called "“M-code"”), which could be implemented directly. The Ur-Lilith had a screen with 704 x of 928 pixels (portrait format), later versions had already 1024 pixels dissolution.

The Lilith computers served at the beginning of the eighties as platform for numerous software projects in the research. They belonged to the first computers with bit-map display, mouse and an window-oriented user interface. The Lilith workstations were operated in a local network and printed out on at that time likewise the new laser printer-commercially were the marketing (starting from 1982) a failure, nevertheless this futuristic machine a computer scientist generation affected.

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