Rob Pike • 1/24/2019

Notes from a 1984 trip to Xerox PARC

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This article is a historical trip report from 1984, written by Rob Pike after a week at Xerox PARC. It offers a critical, technical analysis of the computing infrastructure, focusing on the allocation of Dorado machines, disk dependencies, and the limitations of the personal computing model as implemented at PARC at the time.

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