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This is a great book: "Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age". Describes the creation of so many things we take for granted now (ethernet, laser printing, guis, oop). And it really does capture how Xerox corporate couldn't figure out what to do with PARC.
For those of you still reading books, Dealers of Lightning is an incredible book that talks about working at PARC during that time.
Xerox PARC didn't just invent the GUI, they invented the mouse and bitmaps. Also, ethernet.
https://www.amazon.com/Dealers-Lightning-Xerox-PARC-Computer/dp/0887309895
Integrated circuits were invented by guys in Texas and California at basically the same time and they didn't know it.
https://www.amazon.com/Chip-Americans-Invented-Microchip-Revolution/dp/0375758283
...and there's this old-school legend
https://www.amazon.com/Difference-Engine-Charles-Babbage-Computer/dp/0670910201
A great book on some of the actual history of this is Dealers of Lightning
Honestly, you just need to read Dealer's of Lightning if you want to talk about Bob Kahn at Xerox PARC.
> Still, good that you acknowledge that they also invented CSMA/CD, which is pretty damn necessary to enable speeds of even just 10 mbps over a copper cable.
No, its not. This is error correction. You have no idea what you're talking about. I've run non CSMA/CD lines up to a hundred megs half duplex. This is retarded and just plain false.
Or you could just read http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57479781-93/no-credit-for-uncle-sam-in-creating-net-vint-cerf-disagrees/ which refutes the WSJ article you're quoting. Which quotes from dealers of lightning, and then required the author of dealers of lightning to write an scathing review showing why it was the US government, and how Crovitz had misinterpreted the source.
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