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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: steve jenkin <sjenkin@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: COFF <coff@tuhs.org>
Subject: [COFF] Re: "Hot Spot" High Performing Centres in Computing
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2023 07:29:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231001142932.GQ31217@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F831F381-BFCB-4F76-AFBE-FF50E6354EDC@canb.auug.org.au>

On Sun, Oct 01, 2023 at 04:24:33PM +1100, steve jenkin wrote:
> Taylor founded Xerox PARC, taking many of Engelbart???s team when the ARC closed.
> PARC invented so many things, it???s hard to list???
> Ethernet, Laser printers, GUI & Windowing System, Object Oriented (? good ?), what became ???the PC'

And the mouse unless my boomer memory fails me.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-01 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-01  5:24 [COFF] " steve jenkin
2023-10-01 14:29 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2023-10-01 16:42 ` [COFF] " Clem Cole
2023-10-02 13:08 Noel Chiappa
2023-10-02 13:36 ` Dan Cross
2023-10-02 14:50   ` Larry Stewart
2023-10-03 21:10 Noel Chiappa

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