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* Michael A. Hiltzik, ''Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age'', HarperBusiness, New York, 1999 | * 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 | + | * Douglas K. Smith, Robert C. Alexander, ''Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer'', William Morrow, New York, 1988 |
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| + | * [https://xeroxalto.computerhistory.org/ Xerox PARC Alto filesystem archive] | ||
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Revision as of 23:10, 4 May 2022
Xerox PARC was the acronymmed short form of the 'Xerox Palo Alto Research Center'.
The MAXC computers (clones of the PDP-10; they ran TENEX) were produced there, along with, most famous and consequentially, the ground-breaking Ethernet local area network and the Xerox Alto personal workstation.
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
