[1] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

xerox parc /zee'roks park'/ n. the famed palo alto research center. for
   more than a decade, from the early 1970s into the mid-1980s, parc
   yielded an astonishing volume of groundbreaking hardware and software
   innovations. the modern mice, windows, and icons style of software
   interface was invented there. so was the laser printer and the
   local-area network; and parc's series of d machines anticipated the
   powerful personal computers of the 1980s by a decade. sadly, the
   prophets at parc were without honor in their own company, so much so
   that it became a standard joke to describe parc as a place that
   specialized in developing brilliant ideas for everyone else.

   the stunning shortsightedness and obtusity of xerox's top-level
   suits has been well anatomized in "fumbling the future: how xerox
   invented, then ignored, the first personal computer" by douglas k. smith
   and robert c. alexander william morrow  co., 1988, isbn
   0-688-09511-9.


see also:
suit 

[2] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

xerox parc
     
        /zee'roks park'/ xerox corporation's palo alto research
        center.
     
        for more than a decade, from the early 1970s into the
        mid-1980s, parc yielded an astonishing volume of
        ground-breaking hardware and software innovations.  the modern
        mice, windows, and icons wimp style of software interface
        was invented there.  so was the laser printer and the
        local-area network; smalltalk; and parc's series of d
        machines anticipated the powerful personal computers of the
        1980s by a decade.  sadly, the prophets at parc were without
        honour in their own company, so much so that it became a
        standard joke to describe parc as a place that specialised in
        developing brilliant ideas for everyone else.
     
        the stunning shortsightedness and obtusity of xerox's
        top-level suits has been well described in the reference
        below.
     
        "fumbling the future: how xerox invented, then ignored, the
        first personal computer" by douglas k. smith and robert
        c. alexander william morrow  co., 1988, isbn
        0-688-09511-9.
     
        jargon file
     
        1995-01-26
     
     
see also:
xerox corporation wimp laser printer local-area network smalltalk personal computer 
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PARC Map Viewer
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Xerox PARC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_PARC, score=85, date indexed=January 1, 2006, 2:32 am

About the Xerox PARC Map Viewer
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Xerox PARC Sandbox Server
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