The Apple Mac owes it's GUI & mouse interface to the pioneering Xerox Alto PC.
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#Xerox Gives Legendary PARC Lab to #SRI International | Xerox Palo Alto Research Center #Smalltalk #OOP
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Xerox Gives Legendary PARC Lab to SRI International

Xerox handed over the keys to PARC—a research lab that pioneered GUIs and laser printing, among things—to Silicon Valley nonprofit SRI International.

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