The relationship between Xerox PARC and Ethernet is that the Ethernet was invented at Xerox PARC.
The Graphic User Interface (GUI), the computer mouse and the Ethernet are among the items developed at Xerox PARC. They are now part of most operating systems.
The Xerox company patented the Ethernet technology in 1975 listing not just one inventor, but actually 4 individuals as the inventors for Ethernet. These four individuals were Robert Metcalfe, David Boggs, Butler Lampson, and Chuck Thacker.
Yes, Xerox PARC is located in the US. It is on a hillside in Palo Alto, California. PARC stands for Palo Alto Research Center.
Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC)
Xerox PARC made it in 1976
Warren Teitelman at Xerox Parc
Xerox PARC
The company Parc is a Xerox company that provide customers with R&D services, technology, expertise and intellectual property to both Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies.
The company history of Apple Inc says that a man called Steve Jobs was so impressed with technology shown by Xerox Palo Alto Research Park ( or Xerox PARC as it later became known as) that Steve founded a computer company to let the rest of the world know about this Windows, Icon, Pull Down, (when WIMPS ruled the desktop), Menu system Xerox PARC did have working. Xerox PARC did not protect that innovation so the computer desk was born. Xerox PARC is little more reluctant to talk about what they do now except that the innovation continues.
The Xerox Alto was the first computer to use a Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Ethernet was created at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) for use with early personal computers such as Altos. These computers predate IBM PCs by many years. However they were expensive and their use was mostly confined to research laboratories. Ethernet was formally standardized around 1980 by Xerox, Intel, and Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), and soon afterward Digital started supporting ethernet in the computers they manufactured (such as VAXes and DECsystem 20s). Personal workstations like those made by Sun Microsystems also started to appear at about this time, and most of them also supported Ethernet. Due to memory limitations and the lack of operating system support, ethernet did not really become practical for IBM-style PCs until the early 1990s.
The Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, or Xerox PARC, is the lab where many of the seminal computer and networking technologies were developed over the last 30 years.