Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer"This updated edition features interviews with the major players, new chapters, dozens of new photos, and updates throughout that carry the story forward into the Internet era. The authors convey the exciting development of companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Sun, Netscape, Lotus, and Oracle."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Page 309
... PARC didn't really give Apple folks the technology so much as the vision . Some time later , Apple took more from PARC when it hired Larry Tesler to work on the Lisa . Soon , several more PARC engineers moved over to Apple , recognizing ...
... PARC didn't really give Apple folks the technology so much as the vision . Some time later , Apple took more from PARC when it hired Larry Tesler to work on the Lisa . Soon , several more PARC engineers moved over to Apple , recognizing ...
Page 357
... PARC in 1979. Inspired by the innovations presented by the PARC researchers , he longed to get those ideas implemented in the Lisa computer . When Jobs was nudged out of the Lisa project , he hijacked a team of Apple developers working ...
... PARC in 1979. Inspired by the innovations presented by the PARC researchers , he longed to get those ideas implemented in the Lisa computer . When Jobs was nudged out of the Lisa project , he hijacked a team of Apple developers working ...
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... PARC IMPLEMENTED DOUG ENGELBART'S IDEAS of networked computers , windowing , and his patented device , the mouse , on Xerox computers that the general public never saw . Xerox PARC was where the great ideas about personal computer ...
... PARC IMPLEMENTED DOUG ENGELBART'S IDEAS of networked computers , windowing , and his patented device , the mouse , on Xerox computers that the general public never saw . Xerox PARC was where the great ideas about personal computer ...
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Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer Paul Freiberger,Michael Swaine No preview available - 2000 |
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