Simonyi was at Xerox PARC in the 1970s when its scientists famously created the laser printer and the graphical user interface that the company failed to capitalize on.

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Back in 1990 I printed to a crappy black and white laser printer that frequently jammed, had an incomprehensible user interface, and never worked the way I wanted it to.

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PowerCloud Systems is a spinout from the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), the legendary subsidiary of Xerox responsible for the creation of Ethernet, the Graphical User Interface (GUI), and the laser printer among other innovations.

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