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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. By the late 1960s, Xerox executives had begun to see information technology make an impact in the office environment. Mark Richards/Computer History Museum Kay envisioned a new sort of software environment and programming language for the Dynabook.

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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’.” One of the first decisions Pake in turn made was to hire, among others, Robert Taylor, then at the University of Utah , to help him recruit engineers and scientists for the Computer Science and Systems Science Laboratories.

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