Note that Grant Avery, a fictional character in my book [1] about the Xerox Star, is a manager of Pilot for six months or so. He was very old-school and didn't last. There was a real person like that, but Grant's not modeled after him.

It's amusing that Grant asks the team "will third-party software be able to run on Pilot?" Dave Redell tells me that no one ever asked that, as far as he can recall.

Nearly all the authors are still around, except for Steve Purcell who was killed in a bike accident quite recently.

Also, my book avoids hindsight, but [1] has a section "So what should Xerox have done?"

[1] https://www.albertcory.io