Xerox PARC

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

External links

• Xerox PARC Alto filesystem archive
  • Cross reference by file name
• Xerox PARC Interim File System (IFS) archive
  • Xerox PARC file system archive - curated overview
• 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)
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