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A Tour of Xerox PARC

• alaskamiller 19y ago
  Oh, the glory days when people still did the R in R&D.
• plusbryan 19y ago
  "The library did have Founders at Work--because it wasn't checked out. :-)" Oh, burn. Jessica, are you just going to take that?
  • edw519 19y ago
    Why check it out if you already own it?
  • shayan 19y ago
    or it might have been the reference copy that couldn't be checked out :)
• bayareaguy 19y ago
  According to Jim Gray, the UNDO mechanism of InterLisp (from Xerox) inspired the transaction system of System-R (one of the first relational databases). http://books.google.com/books?id=S_yHERPRZScC&pg=PA575&lpg=PA573&sig=7EmWsFQLnXbUMoDPvQEqGVpxw7M http://books.google.com/books?id=S_yHERPRZScC&pg=PA575&#... I think he's talking about InterLisp-D in that section. Anyone know if earlier versions had the same kind of UNDO?