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

    "64k should be enough memory for everyone"

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

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

  5. 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?

  6. 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

  7. 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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  8. 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.

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

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