@alexr

I was just thinking that the "Star Trek" project (MacOS on X86) was probably the peak of bottom-up driven insanity for a company making most of its money selling hardware.
As sad as that is to say, since many of the people who worked on it were friends of mine.
It ended up being the exact opposite of what Apple tried to then do with clones; get out of the low-margin low end hardware and let clones sell down there. Except, the clone makers were smart and realized all the money was in making high-margin machines.
#AppleLore

#AppleLore #LisaSources
@cmrdporcupine

I've been working on a blog post for the release and originally I started writing about its implementation, pascal, runtimes, libraries... then decided that was really the wrong way to think about it. What it really is encapsulates a historical artifact of the way Apple's engineers came up with a complete solution to a product description. As it turns out, some major assumptions they were given were wrong and the company ended up going in another direction, but their work ended up getting used a a lot of other ways.
And... it turns out you can't really describe the tech stuff well in 1000-1500 words

@loriemerson

"Let a million YouTubes bloom"

a bit of #AppleLore
Sutherland-Sproull Associates (ie. Ivan Sutherland and Bob Sproull) spent a year in Apple's Advanced Technology Group in the late 80's researching video compression. I was having lunch with them, and Ivan didn't understand why people would want to produce their own video, because good video production is HARD.

A bit of #AppleLore
"appleLore" was an event that happened at the Computer History Museum Sept 13, 2003
https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/search/?s=applelore

Musings from Big Pink
#AppleLore
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/apple/mac/pink
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32950099

#bitsavers #AppleLore
Spent the day doing research to see how much the HP 300 "Amigo" influenced the design of the Apple Lisa. @Cdespinosa probably knows. I do know that Paul Baker once told me he worked on Amigo before coming to Apple. http://bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/300

A bit of Apple ATG #AppleLore that appears to have vanished.