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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. Glad by phydror · · Score: 5, Insightful

    to see someone other than Woz and Jobs get attention for their time at Apple!

    1. Re:Glad by capmilk · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Would be especially nice to read more about Burell Smith. That guy was a Mac mastermind. Seems to have vanished, though.

  2. Re:The heap diagram by Dot.Com.CEO · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

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    Mother is the best bet and don't let Satan draw you too fast.
  3. Tripping down Memory Lane by cbelt3 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nice interview, and sounds like a nice book to pick up at the Border's outlet near me next year. Unfortunately, Cult-o-Mac stuff like this book don't sell well around here. I particularly love the arguments about memory from the children on here.

    C'mon- back in the day you didn't just automatically load every freaking library that your compiler offered you in the expectation that your users loved your bloatware. Hell, I remember paying $50 for a 1K RAM chip back in the 70's when boys built computers with wire-wrap guns and lots of gate chips. And when you could see a processor's cycles on a cheapo Korean War surplus o-scope.

    And we had to code 5,000 lines each day, uphill both ways...