[eside-ghost] Palo Alto Research Center

[Javier Sanz]

No suelo escribir a la lista, pero en un rato de aburrimiento me puse
a indagar acerca del PARC: Palo Alto Research Center, y lo que allí
pasó es simplemente *impresionate*.

Mejor leedlo vosotros mismos:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_PARC#Accomplishments

Para los lazy-clickers os pego el párrafo que quita el aliento:

"Xerox PARC was the incubator of many elements of modern computing.
Most were included in the Alto, which introduced and unified most
aspects of now-standard personal computer usage model: the mouse,
computer generated color graphics, a graphical user interface
featuring windows and icons, the WYSIWYG text editor, InterPress (a
resolution-independent graphical page description language and the
precursor to PostScript), Ethernet, and fully formed object-oriented
programming in the Smalltalk programming language and integrated
development environment. The laser printer was developed at the same
time, as an integral part of the overall environment."

Y a modo de conclusión:

"There is no denying the long-term impact of PARC's systems. It took
two decades for much of their technology to be equalled or surpassed."

Lo dicho, impresionante. Cuando sea mayor quiero trabajar alli!

-- 
Un saludo,

    Javier