Nov. 11th, 2005

Folklore.

Nov. 11th, 2005 09:20 pm
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NerdTV interviews Andy Hertzfeld:
"Bill (Atkinson) - who was the author of MacPaint - wasn't there. Don Knuth repeated his request to me and I thought, "Boy, that's Don Knuth asking me for a favor, I'd better do as much as I can to fulfill this. So as soon as I got home I called Bill and said, "You've got to have a copy of the MacPaint source lying around somewhere." Nope. He had it on an old Profile hard drive that went up in smoke 10 years ago. I said, "Come on, Bill, it has got to be on a floppy somewhere."
So they recreate MacPaint out of rotten bits.

PS. Okay, first read about it (and experienced this hair rising feeling - that is called fanboyism.) at Aaditya's.

PPS. I think pretty soon I will die of inferiority complex and this feeling of total inadequacy. Three bloody working years and I look at myself everyday to feel disgusted all over again. Talking to certain university students doesn't help at all. OTOH, it leaves you with a completely crushed ego.

PPPS. But do you know what Bill Atkinson is doing these days? ;-)

Speaking of which, do you know where to buy a Hasselblad, and more importantly, how to make all that much cash to buy one?

Kidding, of course.

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