Interview with Bill Joy (1984)

Re:Interview with Bill Joy (1984) by DonHopkins on Friday February 12, 2021 @08:47AM (#26113563)

"The MIRVing of the Alto user interface into multiple new metaphors means that we are moving into very unfamiliar ground. Everybody should get a Macintosh and understand what’s special about it. We still have a long way to go." -Bill Joy, January 31, 1999

https://donhopkins.medium.com/bill-joys-law-2-year-1984-mill...

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Re:Interview with Bill Joy (1984) by DonHopkins on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @02:36AM (#26151755)

Oops, I mean 1991 not 1999:

    From dgh@dgh Thu Feb 7 12:09:13 1991
    Date: Thu, 7 Feb 91 12:07:38 PST
    From: dgh@dgh (David Hough)
    Subject: Highlights of Bill Joy talk, re-broadcast

    This has been given around the world, most recently at the quarterly directors 
    meeting on 31 Jan. A tape was made that will be available from somebody somewhere 
    later. It’s vintage wnj. When assessing wnj-speak, remember Eric Schmidt’s comment 
    that Bill is almost always qualitatively right, but the time scale is sometimes wrong.
    John Gage collaborated with Bill. Note that some of the specific Sun and SPARC
    projections are confidential.

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