Xerox PARC
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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.
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
