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Old 09-24-2010, 01:12 PM   #6416
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Originally Posted by rlparker View Post
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.
Oh, my. Let's also toss in Smalltalk, and concepts that Apple brought to fruition in the Macintosh. (I believe a number of PARC folks wound up in the Mac development group at Apple.

I tended to describe Xerox as a company known for developing technology other companies turned into useful products.
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