/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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