On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Jenn V. wrote:
> Almost nothing that Palo Alto did conformed to the standards of
> the day. Yet that doesn't seem to have stopped what Palo Alto did
> from becoming extremely successful now.
Well, the Xerox PARC meme of the WIMP interface certainly caught on.
> Of course, it hasn't done Xerox a whole lot of good. But that's
> beside the point. The point being that standards don't affect
> research and experimentation. Only marketplace implementation.
No, because Xerox did not intend on bringing it to market.
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