If you have the chance, you may want to read the book «Dealers of Lightning», which explains the whole story of Xerox PARC. The laser printer, Smalltalk, the ethernet, text processing, the GUI, the Alto, the Bravo, the first laptop etc. Everything is very well explained in a quite entertaining style.
IMO, a must read for every computer engineer, after all it tells the story of almost everything computers are about today :)
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If you have the chance, you may want to read the book «Dealers of Lightning», which explains the whole story of Xerox PARC. The laser printer, Smalltalk, the ethernet, text processing, the GUI, the Alto, the Bravo, the first laptop etc. Everything is very well explained in a quite entertaining style.
IMO, a must read for every computer engineer, after all it tells the story of almost everything computers are about today :)
http://books.google.com/books?id=lzgOduibRJgC&dq=isbn:08...