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Re:Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great En... by nl on Friday October 19, 2018 @02:35AM (#18254615)
They've already done so much more than either of those.

Bell Labs delivered a fair bit of tech, but Xerox PARC did great demos. Xerox PARC == Magic Leap or something like that.

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Re:Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great En... by bsaul on Friday October 19, 2018 @04:41AM (#18255132)
Don’t know why you were downvoted. Xerox parc did in fact release nothing to the general public iirc. But they got great tech which got ripped off, unlike magic leap maybe ?
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Re:Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great En... by a7776f88862 on Monday October 22, 2018 @08:25PM (#18279831)
> Xerox parc did in fact release nothing to the general public iirc.

Right, just because you haven't bothered to look it up, it doesn't exist. Here are just the Xerox PARC work that was commercialized by Xerox I can think of off the top of my head: Ethernet, XNS, Interpress, the Star and D-series workstations, Mesa, Smalltalk, Cedar.

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Re:Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great En... by scroot on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @11:58AM (#18284507)
Don't forget the laser printer, postscript, etc
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Re:Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great En... by pvarangot on Friday October 19, 2018 @11:34AM (#18257425)
The Learning Group at PARK did release Smalltalk, but guess that's not "for the general public".

I was under the idea they never really wanted to release a product for mass consumption.

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