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Originally Posted by naql
...I've moved on to Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age by Michael A. Hiltzik.
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Thanks for the reminder. I've had that book on my TBR list for ages. I worked at Xerox in Sunnyvale, right around the corner from PARC, from 1982 - 1988. I was a developer for the "Star" system. Pilot OS, Mesa programming language, mice, windows, distribruted e-mail, distributed directory (Clearinghouse). What coulda and shoulda been if Xerox had figured out how to market all that stuff.
