[ih] XEROX/PUP and Commercialization (was Re: FYI - Gordon Crovitz/WSJ on "Who Really Invented the Internet?")

[LarrySheldon at cox.net (Larry Sheldon)]

On 7/23/2012 4:00 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>      > So, on the XEROX issue.
>
> I think it's worth noting that some Xerox people have gone on record as
> saying their role has been under-represented. See, for instance, "Dealers of
> Lightning" (Michael Hiltzik; Harper Collins, 1999), pg. 293:

Happens a lot.  The way life goes.  Edison did not invent the light 
bulb.  ENIAC was not the first computer.  Nobody has heard of "Colossus".

Radia Perlman probably invented the first internet.

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