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Re:What made Xerox PARC special? Who else today is like them? by cma on Friday April 14, 2017 @08:44AM (#14114114)
> And, besides, for every DARPAnet, we have many "Where does it hurt most to be stung by a bee?" (1).

Did they invest the same amount in these two?

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Re:What made Xerox PARC special? Who else today is like them? by humanrebar on Friday April 14, 2017 @09:13AM (#14114234)
They invest more than DARPAnet in programs that get earmarked. Entire jets and battleships are researched, developed, and manufactured for political reasons.

I was saying that just pointing out that programs like DARPAnet might not make up for all the other nonsense.

And we can flip that around as well, maybe PARC was spun off from some successful grants, but we're not taking into account these sorts of failures when attaching the price tag to those initial grants.

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