First Internet message and ...

[Stefan Skoglund]

tis 2019-11-26 klockan 19:16 -0800 skrev Fred Cisin via cctalk:
> Good point.
> 
> Some companies that COULD HAVE been the leaders made great
> inventions 
> and/or engineering, and then fumbled the marketing.
> 
> I'm thinking that Xerox Parc could be said to have "invented" the
> next 
> generation of personal computers, but did they ever cash in on that?
> I can visualize a Apple/Microsoft argument, "But we stole it FIRST!"
> (like English/French/Spanish in America)
> 

Regarding XEROX, i think that the project was to large for them to do
while having a proprietary mindset (we want to design the whole stack,
except some applications but we want to design the main one TOO.)

This included seeing Ethernet as a proprietary technology which could
be used to lock out the competition, Which turned out to be a tall
order.