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Revision as of 06:50, 3 October 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
External links
- Xerox PARC Alto filesystem archive
- 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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