/zee' roks park' / ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Xerox Corporation">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 (ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=WIMP">WIMP) style of software interface was invented there. So was the ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=laser printer">laser printer and the ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=local-area network">local-area network ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Smalltalk">Smalltalk and PARC' s series of D machines anticipated the powerful ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=personal computer">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 ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=suits">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)]. [ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Jargon File">Jargon File] (1995-01-26)

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