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A Tour of Xerox PARC

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/12/a-tour-of-xerox.html

by jl • 19 years ago

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alaskamiller• 19 years ago

Oh, the glory days when people still did the R in R&D.

plusbryan• 19 years ago

"The library did have Founders at Work--because it wasn't checked out. :-)"

Oh, burn. Jessica, are you just going to take that?

edw519• 19 years ago

Why check it out if you already own it?

shayan• 19 years ago

or it might have been the reference copy that couldn't be checked out :)

bayareaguy• 19 years ago

According to Jim Gray, the UNDO mechanism of InterLisp (from Xerox) inspired the transaction system of System-R (one of the first relational databases).

http://books.google.com/books?id=S_yHERPRZScC&pg=PA575&#...

I think he's talking about InterLisp-D in that section. Anyone know if earlier versions had the same kind of UNDO?

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