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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. The heap diagram by Saven+Marek · · Score: -1, Troll

    The heap diagram looks like a paragon of inefficiency.

    By using a grow heap you can with very little overhead, run faster. With a 8mghz processor you can use all the speedup you can get.

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

    But instead they insist on squeezing into a small amount of memory. Marketing at work then as it is now!. If they were to have gone up to only 1MB ram then they could have had far more flexibility. But marketing and cost cutting make for a broken design to begin with :(

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  2. Re:I have a joke: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Twat!

  3. Memoirs, ho hum, where's Guy Kawasaki? by gelfling · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's kind of dull reading the memoir of a 50 year old obscenely wealthy ex developer who did something stupedous 20 years ago. I mean isn't it little like Newton in middle age telling you how smart he used to be?