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Re:The Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) Will Join SRI Intern... by usr1106 on Monday April 24, 2023 @06:03PM (#35693883)
Not personally, you have a point :)

I have used Ethernet since 1985ish without being PARC's customer either. I have used a mouse since 1987ish. If you had asked me before reading up on the topic minutes ago where the mouse was developed I would have probably answered PARC, too, and not Stanford and absolutely not SRI. Not sure how the former managed to build to build a "brand" for stuff they haven't even accomplished.

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Re:The Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) Will Join SRI Intern... by rchiang on Monday April 24, 2023 @06:11PM (#35693961)
It's a fine distinction that maybe computer historians know best. Doug Engelbart's "Mother of All Demos" showed off the first computer mouse. The computer mouse that shipped with the Xerox Star is credited as being the "first commercially available computer mouse".

Along similar lines, while the original Ethernet was invented at PARC, Ethernet gained more popularity in industry through Silicon Valley companies like 3Com (with founder Bob Metcalfe, recent ACM Turing Award winner and ex-PARC researcher) and SynOptics Communications (with founders Andrew Ludwick and Ronald Schmidt, both ex-PARC employees).

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Re:The Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) Will Join SRI Intern... by kjs3 on Monday April 24, 2023 @07:36PM (#35694692)
Because SRI focused on gov/mil/intel projects, and Xerox shipped commercial products? There are lots of places like SRI you've never heard of unless you come from their world (e.g. RAND, General Atomics, etc.).
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Re:The Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) Will Join SRI Intern... by retrocryptid on Monday April 24, 2023 @09:49PM (#35695631)
Technically it was at the ARC (Augmentation Research Center), but the ARC was at SRI.
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