Category: Xerox Parc
Apple and Xerox PARC
It is claimed again and again that in the course of the Macintosh’s development, Apple just resorted to the ideas the research laboratory Xerox PARC had hatched before. Fact or Fiction? In the Untied States, the brand name “Xerox” denotes photocopying just as “Kleenex” stands for tissues or “Scotch tape” for adhesive [...]
Computer history: Xerox Alto
In the mid-1970s, the personal-computer market blossomed with the introduction of the Altair 8800. Each year since has brought us personal computers with more power, faster execution, larger memory, and better mass storage. Reprinted from Byte, issue 9/1981, pp. 58-68. Quelle: GUIdebook Few computer enthusiasts or professionals can look at the machines of today without [...]
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