Never worked for or with Xerox, but This is the company that invented object oriented programming and the graphical user interface the Ethernet .. among countless other things, and never capitalized appropriately on much of it...
Xerox litterally invented computer networking as it is known today...
Yet you never hear them mentioned when it is discussed...
That’s because those technologies didn’t use xerography.
They also made the world’s first microprocessor with on chip ROM and RAM.
Since they just lost their hat and butt in a failed attempt at personal computers, they didn’t call it a microprocessor, it was called the LCC, Low Cost Controller. Controller for what? Xerox copiers.
Nothing else. They could have taken over the industrial controls market!
Nope. Only dry powder fused to paper.