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Interview With Mac Co-Creator Andy Hertzfeld

Posted by timothy on from the debt-of-gratitude dept.

jeblucas writes "MacDevCenter interviews Andy Hertzfeld: formerly of Radius, Eazel, General Magic, and most famously, Apple. He discusses his recent book, Revolution in the Valley as well as sharing some anecdotes about his time at Apple developing the Macintosh personal computer. Check out this notebook page from the first cut of the memory layout. The book was reviewed here earlier."

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  1. First Line in the notes by dcarey · · Score: 5, Funny

    LOL the first line in his personal notes is "Memory layout is a bitch." Nice.

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    1. Re:First Line in the notes by Deinhard · · Score: 3, Funny

      His notes look the same as mine...sort of a stream of consciousness-based conversation with himself.

      What's really bad is when you start taking notes from arguments you have inside your head.

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  2. 128 - 44 = 84 by General+Alcazar · · Score: 2, Funny

    It is comforting to know that I'm not the only one who puts pen to paper when subtracting 44 from 128!

    1. Re:128 - 44 = 84 by grub · · Score: 1, Funny


      I used xcalc to verify his figures...

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    2. Re:128 - 44 = 84 by Walrus99 · · Score: 1, Funny

      The answer is: 42

    3. Re:128 - 44 = 84 by Octagon+Most · · Score: 2, Funny

      "It is comforting to know that I'm not the only one who puts pen to paper when subtracting 44 from 128!"

      I checked it on my old Pentium/90 box and got 83.999999999997426.

  3. Re:The heap diagram by Saven+Marek · · Score: 1, Funny

    > Do you have any idea how much 1Mb of RAM
    > cost in 1984?

    Well even if it was up to $50 dollars a meg or even $100 dollars then it would have been worth it for speed all applications, can then use!

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  4. Wise Words by M3rk1n_Muffl3y · · Score: 2, Funny

    "64k should be enough memory for everyone"

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  5. Huge Applications by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I love the part where it says 50k data for huge applications.

  6. Re:The heap diagram by Dot.Com.CEO · · Score: 1, Funny

    Please stop.

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  7. Re:The heap diagram by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny


    Let me guess. You're a first year university student hoping to get his CS. Were you even out of diapers when the Mac came out?

  8. Re:The heap diagram by jeffehobbs · · Score: 4, Funny


    This could then be implemented in about 1MB ram, and you would get so much more speed!

    Yeah, and floppy disks? Seriously, they should have put a Serial ATA hard drive in there. Way faster and way more capacity.

    ~jeff

  9. About that notebook... by the_twisted_pair · · Score: 1, Funny

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  10. Re:The heap diagram by dar · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do you have any idea how much 1Mb of RAM cost in 1984?

    Plus, don't forget, he's designing this in 1981.

    In any case, not to be overly precise, the answer is IIfx (Too f****** expensive).

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  11. Re:The heap diagram by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I kno dude I read once about this UNIVAC computer which toke up the whole floor of a buildng and it was liek dude taht's inefficient if they just used ATHLON with claw hammer and mayby some WATER COOLING thay could make it a lote smaller and more powrful!!!! ad thay could giev it liek 3 GB of DDR and a GEFORCE card and it wold be hella fast... what are thay thinkng???????

  12. Those were the days by Zestius · · Score: 2, Funny
    From the note: "40 k code, 50 k data for huge applications." (my emphasis)

    And then: "40 k equals 10 pages of text." Yes, at least that's still true today, unless you happen to use Word, where 20 k equals 0 pages of text. Wow.

  13. Re:Also good: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do you formulate your posts by using magnetic poetry or something?