It was developed at Xerox PARC as a way to run the software originally developed for their Xerox Alto, Xerox Star and Xerox Daybreak 6085 specialized workstations on Sun Microsystems workstations and IBM PC-based platforms.
This software was developed at Xerox PARC to run applications originally created for their Xerox Alto, Xerox Star, and Xerox Daybreak 6085 specialized computers on Sun Microsystems systems and IBM PCs.