Thomas Strini on Spoutible

Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe are just three of the technology giants descended from the early 70s Xerox Alto computer. The company made a huge R&D investment and changed the world, which is really what companies should be doing now. A great long read.

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50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World - IEEE Spectrum

The Alto transformed computing. And the changes stuck

08:21 AM - Mar 04, 2023

Thomas Strini

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I was a staff editor at IEEE Computer Magazine in the late 1970s. Worked on articles with a bunch of Xerox PARC folks. Edited some of the first articles that described how email would work.

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50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World - IEEE Spectrum