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It was way before Jobs, IBM was using it ages ago.
by bitL 4y ago
It was way before Jobs, IBM was using it ages ago.
- kenjackson 4y agoIsn't this part of the premise of the book Hackers? Haven't read it in like 25 years, but that's what I vaguely remember.
- warner25 4y agoI don't recall this coming up in Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, but it was definitely in The Soul of A New Machine, the story about Data General trying to build their first 32-bit computer.
- kenjackson 4y agoThank you... it was Soul of a New Machine. I don't think I even ever read Hackers!
- kwertyoowiyop 4y agoJobs gets credit for everything in computing the way Churchill gets credit for all the good quotes.
- giaour 4y agoI think it was Mark Twain who said, “Hey, Churchill didn’t say that; that was me.”
- kwertyoowiyop 4y agoWell played, Abraham Lincoln!