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

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But Goldman was unable to convince the executive to whom Xerox’s Electro-Optical Systems division reported (whose background was accounting and finance) to allow a bid. It was battery-powered, ran Smalltalk, and had a touch-sensitive screen designed by Thornburg. “We Warnock, who is now president of Adobe Systems Inc.,

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