Cars That Think

APRIL 23, 2022

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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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

This article was first published as “Of Mice and menus: designing the user-friendly interface.” Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, many of the early concepts for windows, menus, icons, and mice were arduously researched at Xerox Corp.’s But the concept of the computer “icon” was not formalized until 1975. Cupertino, Calif.,

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Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2022

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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