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Re:Glass by zulak on Friday May 31, 2013 @12:40PM (#5799632)
> I mean Wozniak in 1979? What had he done at that point to be in the same list with Knuth or even Bill Joy?

Woz was largely responsible for designing the Apple I & Apple II, both of which played a pretty significant part in starting the entire PC industry. Seems like a pretty spectacular achievement to me.

Re:Glass by DanBC on Friday May 31, 2013 @12:44PM (#5799667)
... and those hardware designs are generally very well respected. He didn't just kludge those boards together.