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Title Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the
Computer Age
Author Michael Hiltzig
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
http://www.harpercollins.com/
Copyright 1999
ISBN 0-88730-891-0
Pages 448
Price $26.00
Lightning Didn't Strike
The founder of Federal Express got a C on the college paper he
wrote describing the idea for his company. FedEx and its competitors
are doing pretty well now. I wonder, as the UPS truck pulls up
outside Stately Swaine Manor, if all those stats on the growth of
e-commerce include the increased business for FedEx and UPS from the
likes of Amazon.com. My latest delivery from Amazon.com is Dealers
of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age, by
Michael Hiltzig (HarperCollins 1999, ISBN 0-88730-891-0).
Although I don't agree with Hiltzig that the Alto was the world's
first personal computer, that's just a matter of different
definitions -- his strictly technological, mine involving price and
marketing as well. I have a few other quibbles with the book, but,
overall, I found it highly readable and seemingly authoritative. In
writing the book, Hiltzig drew on the recollections of those who were
there, interviewing all the obvious suspects and not a few innocent
bystanders.
The book is worth reading just to remind yourself of the amazing
invention machine PARC was -- and of the amazing collection of
inventors who were there.
The development of the Alto, of course, but also:
Jim Clark (the cofounder of Netscape) designing the Geometry
Engine as part of a PARC-supervised course at Stanford and
launching Silicon Graphics on the strength of it.
Lynn Conway (of Mead and Conway, the most well-known names in
VLSI) developing the design techniques and tools to make VLSI a
practical reality.
An offhand remark to Gary Starkweather leading to the
invention of the laser printer.
Bob Metcalfe sifting through various networking options and
coming up with Ethernet.
Alan Kay telling Dan Ingalls and Ted Kaehler that the most
powerful programming language in the world could be specified in
one page and, when challenged to put up or shut up, inventing
Smalltalk.
Bob Taylor recruiting Bill English away from Doug Engelbart
and getting access to the mouse and all the other goodies of
Engelbart's lab.
Charles Simonyi inventing WYSIWYG.
Dan Ingalls shocking the crowd when he demonstrated
bitblt.
John Warnock and Chuck Jeschke creating page-description
languages.
Alvy Ray Smith coming up with the HSV
transformation.
Hiltzig describes PARC's origins, the recruitment of talent, its
culture, people, politics, and projects. He also spends a chapter on
the question, "Did Xerox blow it?" That strikes me as overkill for a
question that can be answered in a word -- Duh!
But I don't mean to belittle Hiltzig's analysis of the politics of
PARC. He does an impressive job of telling not only what happened,
but why and how it happened, and how Xerox management both hindered
and empowered this amazing band of inventors.
If this is failure, we should all be so unsuccessful.
-- Michael Swaine
Copyright © 1999 Electronic Review of Computer Books
Created 5/28/1999 / Last modified 5/28/1999 / webmaster@ercb.com
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