PARC (company) - Accomplishments

Accomplishments

Xerox PARC has been the inventor and incubator of many elements of modern computing in the contemporary office work place:

  • Laser printers,
  • Computer-generated bitmap graphics
  • The Graphical user interface, featuring windows and icons, operated with a mouse
  • The WYSIWYG text editor
  • InterPress, a resolution-independent graphical page-description language and the precursor to PostScript
  • Ethernet as a local-area computer network
  • Fully formed object-oriented programming in the Smalltalk programming language and integrated development environment.

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