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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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This article was first published as "‘PostScript’ prints anything: a case history." from the University of Utah , joined the center in 1978, he immediately began work on a new printer protocol. from the University of Utah , joined the center in 1978, he immediately began work on a new printer protocol.

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50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World

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Xerox buys into computing This wasn’t Xerox’s only big bet on computing. Into PARC flowed many former ARPA contractors, including some from Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory , the University of Utah ‘s computer graphics operation, Doug Engelbart’s group at SRI , and BBN’s artificial-intelligence efforts. But this is wrong.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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This article was first published as “Inside the PARC: the ‘information architects’.” Some of these real-world offspring, like the Apple Lisa computer and the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet printer, took many of their root concepts from PARC; others, like the Ada computer language and the Intel 1103 dynamic RAM chip, are less closely related.

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