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

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The first version of Smalltalk was written as the result of a chance conversation between Kay, Ingalls, and Ted Kaehler, another PARC researcher. No biological organism can live in its own waste products,” Kay said. “If Xerox PARC had this aura of being a very far-out place. I can’t imagine it not being exciting somewhere.”.

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