/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)

In addition suitable contents:
[ 2 ] [ = ] [ ad ] [ al ] [ Alex ] [ am ] [ an ] [ ar ] [ ARC ] [ arc ] [ arg ] [ as ] [ at ] [ B ] [ b ] [ be ] [ br ] [ break ] [ bt ] [ by ] [ C ] [ ca ] [ ch ] [ ci ] [ co ] [ com ] [ Computer ] [ computer ] [ con ] [ cons ] [ cr ] [ D ] [ de ] [ dec ] [ do ] [ du ] [ E ] [ ec ] [ ed ] [ ee ] [ ER ] [ er ] [ es ] [ et ] [ fi ] [ file ] [ fo ] [ for ] [ fr ] [ gh ] [ gl ] [ gn ] [ gr ] [ h ] [ hardware ] [ hat ] [ hing ] [ hr ] [ ht ] [ icon ] [ id ] [ ie ] [ il ] [ IMP ] [ in ] [ int ] [ interface ] [ io ] [ ir ] [ IS ] [ is ] [ it ] [ J ] [ Jargon File ] [ jo ] [ K ] [ ke ] [ ki ] [ la ] [ lase ] [ laser ] [ laser printer ] [ ld ] [ Lex ] [ li ] [ lk ] [ ls ] [ lt ] [ lu ] [ ly ] [ M ] [ ma ] [ machine ] [ mall ] [ mice ] [ mo ] [ mod ] [ mode ] [ module ] [ mp ] [ mu ] [ N ] [ na ] [ nc ] [ ne ] [ net ] [ network ] [ ng ] [ ni ] [ nn ] [ no ] [ ns ] [ O ] [ om ] [ op ] [ pa ] [ Palo Alto Research Center ] [ PARC ] [ pe ] [ personal computer ] [ ph ] [ ping ] [ pl ] [ pr ] [ printer ] [ query ] [ rc ] [ re ] [ reference ] [ rl ] [ ro ] [ row ] [ S ] [ sc ] [ se ] [ sh ] [ si ] [ sig ] [ sit ] [ Smalltalk ] [ so ] [ software ] [ spec ] [ st ] [ standard ] [ su ] [ suit ] [ T ] [ talk ] [ th ] [ to ] [ tw ] [ ug ] [ um ] [ us ] [ va ] [ ve ] [ WIMP ] [ win ] [ ws ] [ X ]