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Originally Posted by Alchemy
He certainly drove the apple brand to the top, lets not forget that apple really started the windows type phenomenon, instead of dos based programmer language, only for Microsoft to leap ahead.
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I think credit really has to be given to PARC... they invented a lot of things we take for granted today with respect to communications and computing...
http://www.parc.com/about/ Click on the timeline at the bottom of the page... Laser Printing in 1970... anyone remember that? WYSIWYG in '74 and the GUI in '75... these guys were WAY ahead of their time.
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Originally Posted by PARC
This year marks the 40 year anniversary of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, usually called Xerox PARC, or now just PARC. Ethernet, Laser printers, the mouse, the Graphical User Interface (GUI) and even the Dynabook all came out of this uncommonly innovative place, and then promptly left the building. In many ways, Xerox PARC is more famous for the innovations that it couldn't hold onto, than the ones it could retain and capitalize on. Today, PARC will celebrate the start of their fifth decade at its Palo Alto headquarters, and I think it's worth looking back to see what can be learned. |
http://unweary.com/2010/09/what-left-xerox-parc.html