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Re:The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple ... by GeekyBear on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @03:40PM (#17612152)
The Computer History Museum has one of their long form interviews with Avie Tevanian, who led the creation of Mach (multiprocessor BSD) as his Ph.D project. (His faculty advisor went on to head Microsoft Research)

Next and Microsoft both sought to hire him, and he eventually went on to be in charge of the OS at Next and later Apple.

One of the topics he covered in the interview was how Next (and Apple) decided to use and contribute back to open sourced software at the lower levels of their stack.

He also covers what it was like to work for Steve Jobs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwCdKU9uYnE

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Re:The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple ... by cmacaskill on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @03:53PM (#17612243)
It's funny, for a long time Avie had a calculator on his NeXT screen to show Microsoft stock and the cost of coming to NeXT. But Apple stock did okay later, so it wasn't the disaster it once looked to be.
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