would the accomplishment be any less than how we view Xerox PARC today? Most certainly. Remember, PARC never shipped. Instead they created the foundation upo

would the accomplishment be any less than how we view Xerox PARC today? Most certainly. Remember, PARC never shipped. Instead they created the foundation upon what we ship with today. AltaVista and Hotmail weren't horrible experiences. Google provided an incremental boost to these that made them, yes, much more powerful. But it was evolution, not revolution. PARC was all about Revolution. Of course Steve Jobs says, "real artists ship." He took what PARC created and shipped it and made money. He advanced the state of the market. PARC advanced the state of technology. That's the difference.