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Re:The side of Paul Allen I wish more people knew about by yo-scot-99 on Saturday June 29, 2019 @06:53PM (#20315327)
> Paul was always good at seeing the big picture.

This reminds me of a day at Asymetrix - a startup founded by Mr Allen. Somehow we got a very early incarnation of Mosaic and I remember showing everyone how to bounce over to each lab with just a click and what authoring in HTML meant. Asymetrix's main product at the time was Toolbook, essentially a Hypercard clone -- but this was obviously the future. Paul's reaction was muted but I think he knew "This is happening without us!"

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Re:The side of Paul Allen I wish more people knew about by flensortow on Saturday June 29, 2019 @10:29PM (#20316003)
I interviewed at Asymetrix at one point.

They had the very strange idea they were going to take on Microsoft and Borland with their own C++ development system, which seemed to make no sense to me given the other things they were doing.

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