Interview With Initiator of DirectX

Miguel de Icaza writes "There's a great interview from Shacknews with Alex St. John, one of the earlier DirectX / gaming guys. He talks about almost losing his job going against Bill Gates, and talks a bit about the MS development & political process. 'You know why the X on the Xbox is a glowing green X? The original codename for Direct X was the Manhattan Project, because strategically it was an effort to displace Japanese game consoles with PCs and ultimately the Xbox. We called it the Manhattan Project because that was the codename for the program developing the nuclear bomb. We had a glowing radiation logo for the prototype for Direct X, and of course as soon as that got out and the press covered it, it caused a scandal.'"

Comments

Racism

[king-manic]

With such openly racist project names I sincerly hope the Xbox fails as an asian Canadian I find the references offensive. perhaps it's no wonder the xbox falls on it's face in japan. The people behind it seem to openly hate them and have bad taste in their choice of project names.

/ vitriol