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A comment on Notes by Andy Hertzfeld on Alan Kay's talk at Creative Think seminar, July 1982.

Re:Notes by Andy Hertzfeld on Alan Kay's talk at Creative Th... by compiler-guy on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @04:40PM (#23980447)
"People who are serious about software should make their own hardware." Classic and true.
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Re:Notes by Andy Hertzfeld on Alan Kay's talk at Creative Th... by Austin_Conlon on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @04:47PM (#23980531)
He unpacks that here: https://www.quora.com/What-did-Steve-Jobs-mean-when-he-said-....
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Re:Notes by Andy Hertzfeld on Alan Kay's talk at Creative Th... by 7thaccount on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @11:04AM (#23987428)
Charles "Chuck" Moore of Forth fame does this. Uses his own CAD software to create his own chips which then run a Forth purpose built to run on that chip.
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