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“Well, Steve, I think there’s more than one way of looking at it. I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.”
Great analogy. Over the years, Xerox lost a lot more than just “the TV” from its Palo Alto home. I wonder if they had homeowners insurance…? Here’s a quick hit list of Xerox PARC inventions pulled from wikipedia:
Xerox PARC has been the inventor and incubator of many elements of modern computing in the contemporary office work place:
- Laser printers,
- Computer-generated bitmap graphics
- The Graphical user interface, featuring windows and icons, operated with a mouse
- The WYSIWYG text editor
- InterPress, a resolution-independent graphical page-description language and the precursor to PostScript
- Ethernet as a local-area computer network
- Fully formed object-oriented programming in the Smalltalk programming language and integrated development environment.
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nhmortgagebroker reblogged this from thegongshow and added:
“the TV”...insurance…? Here’s
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thegongshow reblogged this from controlaltadam and added:
Great analogy. Over the years, Xerox lost a lot...just “the TV” from its Palo Alto...
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