in reality
i got interested to read more about charles simonyi, because he was babysitting the ural. (... The elder son of a Budapest professor of electrical engineering, Simonyi had first encountered a computer at the age of fifteen. This was a Soviet-made contraption called the "Ural 11"?? - was there an 11? or should it be II???) (source) seeing the create flag on chris side together with his history links of the day made me even more curious.
i found this interview at edge: intentional programming.
after reading it, i guess he was the right guy for billy boy, but i don´t think i would like to go for a drink with him.
just one quote: "We [at ms] were competing very effectively against Visicalc using a strategy that is very much like Java today; it was a platform independent, interpretive, bytecoded system, that enabled us at one point to run on 100 different platforms, (....)
well, i don´t know what to think about it. clearly there is some exaggeration and i don´t like his attitute overall. he got criticized here
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the brain does." (margaret boden) Mind As Machine. A History...
20 years since i met nils abramson and heard about...
the year 2000 . Intellectual Property in the Information Age...
was after all, the early days of Intelsat, when having...
makes one search again, along the lines given. brought me...
im ohr: ein interview mit verkühlter stimme. aufnahmedatum: 2016.
It's an amazing window on the early history of interactive...
werden in ihrer wortwahl aggressiv.
Mathematischen Erquickstunden, Dritter Theil, 1653 | https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_bGM_AAAAcAAJ
