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| − | '''Xerox PARC''' was the acronymmed short form | + | '''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. |
| − | + | Also created at PARC was the [[PARC Universal Packet]] (PUP) [[internetwork|internetworking]] [[protocol suite]]; it had a significant influence on the later [[TCP/IP]]. | |
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| + | The [[MAXC]] computers (clones of the [[PDP-10]], which ran [[TENEX]]), were also produced there | ||
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* [https://xeroxalto.computerhistory.org/ Xerox PARC Alto filesystem archive] | * [https://xeroxalto.computerhistory.org/ Xerox PARC Alto filesystem archive] | ||
** [https://xeroxalto.computerhistory.org/cross_reference.html Cross reference by file name] | ** [https://xeroxalto.computerhistory.org/cross_reference.html Cross reference by file name] | ||
| + | * [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 | ||
[[Category: Research Organizations]] | [[Category: Research Organizations]] | ||
[[Category: Xerox]] | [[Category: Xerox]] | ||
Revision as of 16:21, 11 May 2023
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.
Also created at PARC was the PARC Universal Packet (PUP) internetworking protocol suite; it had a significant influence on the later TCP/IP.
The MAXC computers (clones of the PDP-10, which ran TENEX), were also produced there
Further reading
- Michael A. Hiltzik, Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age, HarperBusiness, New York, 1999
- Douglas K. Smith, Robert C. Alexander, Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer, William Morrow, New York, 1988
