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Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) was founded as the research and development division of Xerox in 1970. It has made important contributions to the computing field, and its inventions include laser printing; Ethernet technology for local area networks; the Xerox Alto which was one of the earliest personal computers and which had a major influence on the design of the Apple Macintosh computer; the graphical user interface (GUI) which included icons and windows for personal computers; Bravo and Gypsy which were the first text formatting WYSIWYG editors; and object-oriented programming with the Smalltalk programming language.
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O’Regan, G. (2015). Xerox PARC. In: Pillars of Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21464-1_35
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