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From: ittai@shemesh.GBA.NYU.EDU (Ittai Hershman)
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Subject: Re: _Fumbling_the_Future_
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Date: 15 Dec 89 02:48:13 GMT
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Yes, it is a "must read".  Unfortunately, it's not terribly well
written, or more precisely, it is not well edited.  This seemed ironic
to me at the time I read it -- just as Xerox fumbled, this book
fumbled in telling the story.  It is a great story which the authors
did a good job of researching.  Had a little more work gone into it,
this book would have had a far greater impact.

	Fumbling The Future: how Xerox invented, then ignored,
	the first personal computer / Douglas K. Smith and Robert
	C. Alexander.  Morrow, 1988.  ISBN 0-688-06959-2.  $19.95.

I would also recommend:

	The History of Personal Workstations / Edited by Adele Goldberg.
	Addison Wesley/ACM Press, 1988.  ISBN 0-201-11259-0.  $46.50 for
	ACM members via the ACM.

-Ittai