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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>XEROX PARC</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../X.html" title="X"/><link rel="previous" href="X.html" title="X"/><link rel="next" href="XOFF.html" title="XOFF"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">XEROX PARC</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="X.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">X</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="XOFF.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="XEROX-PARC"/><dt xmlns="" id="XEROX-PARC"><b>XEROX PARC</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/zee´roks park´/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The famed Palo Alto Research Center. For more than a decade, from
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the early 1970s into the mid-1980s, PARC yielded an astonishing volume of
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groundbreaking hardware and software innovations. The modern mice,
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windows, and icons style of software interface was invented there. So was
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the laser printer and the local-area network; and PARC's series of D
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machines anticipated the powerful personal computers of the 1980s by a
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decade. Sadly, the prophets at PARC were without honor in their own
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company, so much so that it became a standard joke to describe PARC as a
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place that specialized in developing brilliant ideas for everyone
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else.</p><p>The stunning shortsightedness and obtusity of XEROX's top-level
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<a href="../S/suit.html"><i class="glossterm">suit</i></a>s has been well anatomized in
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<i class="citetitle">Fumbling The Future: How XEROX Invented, Then Ignored, the First
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Personal Computer</i> by Douglas K. Smith and Robert C. Alexander
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(William Morrow & Co., 1988, ISBN 0-688-09511-9).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="X.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../X.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="XOFF.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">X </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> XOFF</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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