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> I wonder why they have not been successful.

Because Xerox considered they could never make a product out of PARC's output (Apple and Microsoft disagreed). None of it ever became actual products, it was either research material or stuff for some unis.

Also, maybe price. This was in the late 70s to early 80s, the hardware in the box was significant, the rest of the world was still running on 80x25 text displays if that.



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