9 Jan
1999
9 Jan
'99
3:45 p.m.
Phil Clayton said...
|
|The Notetaker was another of the bright ideas that sprang
| from Xerox PARC. But like many others, including the mouse it sported, it was
| commercialized by someone else. In this case, Adam Osborne.
It's just as well that someone did it (if he did.)
Xerox Parc was notorious for not doing anything
with their brilliant research. If they'd run
with the computer stuff they had come up with,
we'd have been some seriously happy puppies by
now... And the PC/DOC world takeover probably
wouldn't have happened quite as it did.
Anybody who doesn't believe this needs to go do
some research on the Alto and Star.
-Miles