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xerox parc
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Palo Alto Research Center
Palo Alto Research Centre
PARC
/zee'roks park'/ Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research
Center.
For more than a decade, from the early 1970s into the
mid-1980s, PARC yielded an astonishing volume of
ground-breaking hardware and software innovations. The modern
mice, windows, and icons (WIMP) style of software interface
was invented there. So was the laser printer and the
local-area network; Smalltalk; and PARC's series of D
machines anticipated the powerful personal computers of the
1980s by a decade. Sadly, the prophets at PARC were without
honour in their own company, so much so that it became a
standard joke to describe PARC as a place that specialised in
developing brilliant ideas for everyone else.
The stunning shortsightedness and obtusity of XEROX's
top-level suits has been well described in the reference
below.
["Fumbling The Future: How XEROX Invented, Then Ignored, the
First Personal Computer" by Douglas K. Smith and Robert
C. Alexander (William Morrow & Co., 1988, ISBN
0-688-09511-9)].
[Jargon File]
(1995-01-26)
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xerox parc
(jargon) | XEROX PARC
/zee'roks park´/, n.
The famed Palo Alto Research Center. For more than a decade, from the early
1970s into the mid-1980s, PARC yielded an astonishing volume of
groundbreaking hardware and software innovations. The modern mice, windows,
and icons style of software interface was invented there. So was the laser
printer and the local-area network; and PARC's series of D machines
anticipated the powerful personal computers of the 1980s by a decade.
Sadly, the prophets at PARC were without honor in their own company, so
much so that it became a standard joke to describe PARC as a place that
specialized in developing brilliant ideas for everyone else.
The stunning shortsightedness and obtusity of XEROX's top-level suits has
been well anatomized in Fumbling The Future: How XEROX Invented, Then
Ignored, the First Personal Computer by Douglas K. Smith and Robert C.
Alexander (William Morrow & Co., 1988, ISBN 0-688-09511-9).
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xerox parc
(foldoc) | XEROX PARC
Palo Alto Research Center
Palo Alto Research Centre
PARC
/zee'roks park'/ Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research
Center.
For more than a decade, from the early 1970s into the
mid-1980s, PARC yielded an astonishing volume of
ground-breaking hardware and software innovations. The modern
mice, windows, and icons (WIMP) style of software interface
was invented there. So was the laser printer and the
local-area network; Smalltalk; and PARC's series of D
machines anticipated the powerful personal computers of the
1980s by a decade. Sadly, the prophets at PARC were without
honour in their own company, so much so that it became a
standard joke to describe PARC as a place that specialised in
developing brilliant ideas for everyone else.
The stunning shortsightedness and obtusity of XEROX's
top-level suits has been well described in the reference
below.
["Fumbling The Future: How XEROX Invented, Then Ignored, the
First Personal Computer" by Douglas K. Smith and Robert
C. Alexander (William Morrow & Co., 1988, ISBN
0-688-09511-9)].
[Jargon File]
(1995-01-26)
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xerox parc
(jargon) | XEROX PARC
/zee'roks park´/, n.
The famed Palo Alto Research Center. For more than a decade, from the early
1970s into the mid-1980s, PARC yielded an astonishing volume of
groundbreaking hardware and software innovations. The modern mice, windows,
and icons style of software interface was invented there. So was the laser
printer and the local-area network; and PARC's series of D machines
anticipated the powerful personal computers of the 1980s by a decade.
Sadly, the prophets at PARC were without honor in their own company, so
much so that it became a standard joke to describe PARC as a place that
specialized in developing brilliant ideas for everyone else.
The stunning shortsightedness and obtusity of XEROX's top-level suits has
been well anatomized in Fumbling The Future: How XEROX Invented, Then
Ignored, the First Personal Computer by Douglas K. Smith and Robert C.
Alexander (William Morrow & Co., 1988, ISBN 0-688-09511-9).
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