4 Jun
2009
4 Jun
'09
2:36 p.m.
Evan Koblentz wrote:
After I wrote that, a dozen more people came to mind. As I said,
PARC CSL and SSL were amazing labs at the time. By the early 80's
they had built their large CISC machines, and the world (and many
of the people) had moved on to DEC, Apple, Microsoft ...
I worked under Larry when I was in the Advanced Technology Group at
Apple. ATG did some good work too, and we had the same sorts of
problems with technology transfer that they had at Xerox. The only
way to get ideas accepted was to go into the product development
group, which very few people wanted to do because ATG didn't have
the pressure that Apple product development had. When Jobs came back,
ATG was killed off. It was cheaper for him to just buy a startup if
he wanted new technology than to have an in-house research group.
look for:
Bob Taylor
Butler Lampson
Chuck Thacker
Wayne Lichtenberger, Project Genie, Berkeley Computer Corporation
William English
Doug Englebart, SRI, Augment, Bootstrap Institute
Bill Duvall
Burt Sutherland
Alan Kay
Dan Ingalls
Adele Goldberg
..and on and on and on
... and Larry Tesler