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Alan Kay on What was it like to be at Xerox PARC when Steve Jobs visited?

32 pointsby k4rtikalmost 8 years ago

3 comments

jecelalmost 8 years ago
Here is a recreation of the change that Dan Ingalls did to Smalltalk-78 to address Steve Jobs&#x27; objection that scrolling wasn&#x27;t smooth enough:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=eEz08IlcNMg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=eEz08IlcNMg</a>
justin66almost 8 years ago
<i>I was present at the visit and demo, and it was the work of my group and myself that Steve saw, yet the Quora question is the first time that anyone has asked me what happened. (Worth pondering that interesting fact!)</i><p>That really <i>is</i> interesting. I am surprised Michael Hiltzik never asked about it during the research for Dealers of Lightning. Given its length that book probably tries to cover too much ground, but it&#x27;s interesting that they never had that conversation. (IIRC the author quotes Adele Goldberg in that chapter)
marvel_boyalmost 8 years ago
&gt; This was his way of trying to be “top gun” when in a room where he wasn’t the smartest person.)<p>Why on the earth all the &quot;business&quot; people is so stupid ?
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