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From: ncjuul@freja.diku.dk (Niels Christian Juul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac,comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: A philosophic question
Message-ID: <5046@freja.diku.dk>
Date: 15 Dec 89 08:49:00 GMT
References: <1634@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> <10754@claris.com>
Organization: DIKU, U of Copenhagen, DK
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In article <1634@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> rkc@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (rkc) writes:
>	1: Why Xerox didn't make a killing.
And peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce) responded:
>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.

May I also drive Your attentions towards a short overview of the Xerox
development history:
	"The Xerox Star: A Retrospective"
	by Jeff Johnson et al.
	in IEEE, Computer, september 1989, Vol22(9), p. 11-29
--Niels Christian Juul
  DIKU (aka Dept.Comp.Sci., Univ. of Copenhagen)
  Universitetsparken 1
  DK 2100 Copenhagen
  DENMARK
--ncjuul@diku.dk

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