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

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It employs approximately 350 researchers, managers, and support staff (by comparison, Bell Laboratories before the AT&T breakup employed roughly 25,000). It was battery-powered, ran Smalltalk, and had a touch-sensitive screen designed by Thornburg. “We and Toronto, Ont., Warnock, who is now president of Adobe Systems Inc.,

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