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Ask HN: anyone know why Burrell Smith designed the Macintosh and not Woz?

• wmf 15y ago
  The story is that he just went and started it over Christmas.
• onan_barbarian 15y ago
  Probably because Woz was the product of millions of years of evolution, not design. Designing a computer would be much easier.
  • hoodoof 15y ago
    I confer on you the "Champion Of The Universe" achievement badge.
• staunch 15y ago
  http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Scrooge_McDuck.txt&characters=Burrell%20Smith&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date&detail=medium http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s... Doesn't say why unfortunately. I think Woz was pretty quickly burned out at Apple. Plenty of other great hackers were working there, so they weren't reliant on him anymore.