Interview With Mac Co-Creator Andy Hertzfeld 165
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."
First Line in the notes (Score:5, Funny)
128 - 44 = 84 (Score:2, Funny)
Re:128 - 44 = 84 (Score:1, Funny)
I used xcalc to verify his figures...
Re:The heap diagram (Score:2, Funny)
> cost in 1984?
Well even if it was up to $50 dollars a meg or even $100 dollars then it would have been worth it for speed all applications, can then use!
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Wise Words (Score:2, Funny)
Huge Applications (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The heap diagram (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The heap diagram (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?
Re:First Line in the notes (Score:3, Funny)
What's really bad is when you start taking notes from arguments you have inside your head.
Re:The heap diagram (Score:5, 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
Re:128 - 44 = 84 (Score:1, Funny)
About that notebook... (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:The heap diagram (Score:2, Funny)
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).
Re:The heap diagram (Score:1, Funny)
Those were the days (Score:2, Funny)
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.
Re:128 - 44 = 84 (Score:3, Funny)
I checked it on my old Pentium/90 box and got 83.999999999997426.
Re:Also good: (Score:2, Funny)