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Yes, and Xerox PARC also had a ton of smart people working on a bunch of exciting futuristic projects at one point as well.

• jsolson 13y ago
  ... and completely failing to capitalize on more or less all of them, because they didn't even try.
  • hyperbovine 13y ago
    You mean, like, not charging money for anything?
    • zArtLaffer 13y ago
      Or even release them as products. Or actively shutting them down (or attempting to). The mouse, their DRM language (as mal-conceived as it may have been, was pretty clean), Bob Metcalfe's Ethernet and bit-mapped windowing displays all come to mind. IIRC correctly there were some interesting experiments in object-oriented interpretive languages, their runtimes, dev environments and libraries (think about lessons learned from LISP/Smalltalk before Python/Ruby or Perl or even PHP) And there were more. Many more.
  • cma 13y ago
    As I recall they got something like an 8000% return on investment from all the money that went into PARC from the invention of the laser printer at PARC alone.