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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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  2. Glad by phydror · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

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

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

  4. 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...

  5. Enlightenment for the children... by FrankSchwab · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think all the children who posted "Gee, but 4 digits for the year isn't that much more memory than 2" in the Y2K story really ought to look at this guy's notebook page to get an understanding of the environment in those days. 4K (or 18K) for the OS. I love the notation: "40K code, 50K data for huge applications" /frank

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  6. OK, I looked it up by koi88 · · Score: 5, Informative


    In 1984, 1 MB of RAM cost about 350$.
    And that was when you could buy a house for 500$. Ah, well, not quite. But the price is correct (more or less).

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