Xerox PARC - Revision history

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−	'''Xerox PARC''' was the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (most usually referred to by the acronymmed short form). During its peak period of productivity in the 1970s, building on earlier thinking and work by people such as [[J. C. R. Licklider]], [[Ivan Sutherland]] and [[Douglas Engelbart]], it created essentially the modern computing environment. Among their most consequential and famous creations were:	+	'''Xerox PARC''' was the [[Xerox]] Palo Alto Research Center (most usually referred to by the acronymmed short form). During its peak period of productivity in the 1970s, building on earlier thinking and work by people such as [[J. C. R. Licklider]], [[Ivan Sutherland]] and [[Douglas Engelbart]], it created essentially the modern computing environment. Among their most consequential and famous creations were:

	* the ground-breaking [[Xerox Alto]] personal [[workstation]], from which essentially all modern [[personal computer]]s, including especially their [[graphical user interface]]s, are descended;		* the ground-breaking [[Xerox Alto]] personal [[workstation]], from which essentially all modern [[personal computer]]s, including especially their [[graphical user interface]]s, are descended;

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 * the [[touch tablet]]
-The [[Maxc]] computers (clones of the [[PDP-10]], which ran [[TENEX]]), were also produced there
+The [[Maxc]] computers (clones of the [[PDP-10]], which ran [[TENEX]]), were also produced there. PARC also wrote and experimented with the first [[worm]]s ever produced.
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		+	* [[Worm]]

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 ** [https://computerhistory.org/blog/a-backup-of-historical-proportions/ A Backup of Historical Proportions] - making the Xerox PARC file system archive accessible
 * [https://spectrum.ieee.org/xerox-parc Xerox PARC's Engineers on How They Invented The Future] - excellent [[IEEE]] article (with a few irritating minor errors: "information-processing techniques office" should be [[Information Processing Techniques Office]] - its formal name; "the 1,103 dynamic memory chips used in the MAXC design" - that's the [[Intel 1103]])
 * [https://spectrum.ieee.org/parc Xerox Donates Legendary PARC Research Center]

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 * the [[laser printer]]
-* inclusion of [[graphics]] in computer-produced documents
+* inclusion of [[graphics]] in computer-produced documents, eventually leading to [[PostScript]]
 * [[structured programming]] and [[object-oriented]] [[programming language]]s
 * the idea for the [[laptop]] (in the form of [[Alan Kay]]'s [[Dynabook]])

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 * [https://xeroxparcarchive.computerhistory.org/index.html Xerox PARC Interim File System (IFS) archive]
 ** [https://xeroxparcarchive.computerhistory.org/Xerox_PARC_source_code.html Xerox PARC file system archive] - curated overview
 * [https://spectrum.ieee.org/xerox-parc Xerox PARC's Engineers on How They Invented The Future] - excellent [[IEEE]] article (with a few irritating minor errors: "information-processing techniques office" should be [[Information Processing Techniques Office]] - its formal name; "the 1,103 dynamic memory chips used in the MAXC design" - that's the [[Intel 1103]])
 * [https://spectrum.ieee.org/parc Xerox Donates Legendary PARC Research Center]

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-'''Xerox PARC''' was the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center; most usually referred to by the acronymmed short form. It most famously and consequentially produced the ground-breaking [[Xerox Alto]] personal [[workstation]], from which essentially all modern computing user interfaces are descended; and the [[Ethernet]] [[local area network]], which was similarly influential on the now-ubiquitous [[WiFi]] networking technology.
+'''Xerox PARC''' was the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (most usually referred to by the acronymmed short form). During its peak period of productivity in the 1970s, building on earlier thinking and work by people such as [[J. C. R. Licklider]], [[Ivan Sutherland]] and [[Douglas Engelbart]], it created essentially the modern computing environment. Among their most consequential and famous creations were:
-Also created at PARC was the [[PARC Universal Packet]] (PUP) [[internetwork|internetworking]] [[protocol suite]]; it had a significant influence on the later [[TCP/IP]].
+* the ground-breaking [[Xerox Alto]] personal [[workstation]], from which essentially all modern [[personal computer]]s, including especially their [[graphical user interface]]s, are descended;
-The [[MAXC]] computers (clones of the [[PDP-10]], which ran [[TENEX]]), were also produced there
+* the [[Ethernet]] [[local area network]], which through its descendant, [[DIX Ethernet]], was similarly influential on the now-ubiquitous [[WiFi]] networking technology;
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+* the [[PARC Universal Packet]] (PUP) [[internetwork]]ing [[protocol suite]]; it had a significant influence on the later [[TCP/IP]] of the [[Internet]];
 ==Further reading==
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 ==External links==
 * [https://xeroxparcarchive.computerhistory.org/index.html Xerox PARC Interim File System (IFS) archive]
 ** [https://xeroxparcarchive.computerhistory.org/Xerox_PARC_source_code.html Xerox PARC file system archive] - curated overview
-* [https://spectrum.ieee.org/xerox-parc Xerox PARC's Engineers on How They Invented The Future] - excellent [[IEEE]] article (with a few irritating minor errors: "information-processing techniques office" should be 'Information Processing Techniques Office' [its formal name]; "the 1,103 dynamic memory chips used in the MAXC design" - that's the [[Intel 1103]])
+* [https://spectrum.ieee.org/xerox-parc Xerox PARC's Engineers on How They Invented The Future] - excellent [[IEEE]] article (with a few irritating minor errors: "information-processing techniques office" should be [[Information Processing Techniques Office]] - its formal name; "the 1,103 dynamic memory chips used in the MAXC design" - that's the [[Intel 1103]])
-* [https://spectrum.ieee.org/parc m]
+* [https://spectrum.ieee.org/parc Xerox Donates Legendary PARC Research Center]
 [[Category: Research Organizations]]
 [[Category: Xerox]]