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xerox

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Editorial note

One thing that almost always gets overlooked when critizing / trying to innovate on Xerox Parc-like interfaces, is discoverability.

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Quick take

Alternative letter-case form of xerox. [(Philippines, India, dated in Canada, US, colloquial, informal) A photocopy.]

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noun

Alternative letter-case form of xerox. [(Philippines, India, dated in Canada, US, colloquial, informal) A photocopy.]

noun

(Philippines, India, dated in Canada, US, colloquial, informal) A photocopy.

noun

(dated, Canada, US, colloquial, informal) A photocopier.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for xerox.

Example sentences

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One thing that almost always gets overlooked when critizing / trying to innovate on Xerox Parc-like interfaces, is discoverability.

2

They failed to make Xerox a computer company, but it had this wonderful spinoff effect.

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Copyright died the year that xerox machines got installed in public and college libraries.

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The work started when Wirth saw the same Xerox setup that Apple did.

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I'm surprised we aren't all reading this on shitty xerox workstations with black and white graphics...

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I had a loaner Smalltalk license in the early 1980s for my Xerox Lisp Machine.

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I like looking at old stuff from Bell Labs and Xerox Parc.

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If you made billions on a product such as did Xerox you'd be keen to fully investigate a technology that threatens to supplant your bread and butter product, fear will drive you to do this.

Quote examples

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Great artists steal." (Steve Jobs, inspired by Picasso) Put that to good use after a visiting some true innovators at Xerox Palo Alto.

Proper noun examples

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MVC (Model, View, Controller) was created by Alan Kay while working at Xerox, when he created SmallTalk and that was back in 1972.

2

I had some Brother typewriters but I think the most amazing piece of this I ever had was a (Xerox) Diablo 630.

3

Apple, EBay, Facebook, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, Xerox.

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How do you use xerox in a sentence?

One thing that almost always gets overlooked when critizing / trying to innovate on Xerox Parc-like interfaces, is discoverability.

What does xerox mean?

Alternative letter-case form of xerox. [(Philippines, India, dated in Canada, US, colloquial, informal) A photocopy.]

What part of speech is xerox?

xerox is commonly used as noun, verb.