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Podcast: airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien
Episode: Dr. Deprecator
Description: An airhacks.fm conversation with Stuart Marks (@stuartmarks) about:
Wang 2200 Laboratories computer with 10 years,
David Ahl 101 Basic Computer Games,
Basic without "else",
GOTO and GOSUB,
Pascal Records and Java,
conditional evaluation in Pascal,
the criticism on Pascal,
Bill Joy added the socket interface to BSD 4.2,
replacing VMS with BSD,
the Bill Joy long weekend,
starting at Sun Microsystems,
working with James Gosling on the NeWS windows system,
Postcript based windows system,
NeWS ran on SunOS,
SunOS 5 became Solaris,
the unpleasant UNIX wars with AT&T, HP and IBM,
X-Window vs. NeWS,
shared state and NeWS,
display postscript became the NeXT...