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Originally Posted by paulsherwin
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Originally Posted by Malcolm G6ANZ
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Xerox PARC was massively important in the development of modern desktop computing, which is odd for a company which was primarily a photocopier manufacturer. Both Windows and the Mac interface were pretty much stolen from Xerox designs, and they also developed Ethernet, initially as a fast interface for their high end laser printers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_(company) |
If anyone is interested in this they might like the story of The Mother of all Demos as it came to be called. Douglas Engelbart demonstrated in a public auditorium his mouse, multitasking, windowed graphical display, remote file access, email, and word processing. This was in 1968. They used a $500,000 colour projector as used for NASA mission control.
"his presentation was described by one mesmerised attendee as "dealing lightning with both hands"."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
https://www.theregister.com/2018/12/...ts_demo_at_50/
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erox PARC was a research campus, they had a huge budget and appeared to just play themselves. It was after the fashion of Bell Labs.