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From: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce)
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Subject: Re: A philosophic question
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Date: 14 Dec 89 22:20:49 GMT
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In article <1634@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> rkc@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (rkc) writes:
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>  Any comments on 
>	1: Why Xerox didn't make a killing.

Read the book "Fumbling the future.  How Xerox invented, then ignored, the
first personal computer", by Douglas K. Smith and Robert C. Alexander.

It's an excellent book that explains a lot of what was going on at Xerox
during the early PARC days.

Remember, great technology does not a successful computer make!  Thank goodness
Jobs et al visited PARC and brought some of their great ideas to the masses.

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