@neauoire Xerox was my first job straight out of uni...

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@neauoire Xerox was my first job straight out of uni in 1981 when we were first bringing Star to market.

I worked in the Pilot team (OS kernel) and it was indeed a wonderful place. The environment for a techie like me (uninvolved in all the higher level machinations) was indeed a supportive one that fostered innovation.

At the time, many of us naively believed that having the best technology would win the day. It was beneficial to me to unlearn this early in my career.

Like 12 Aug 2023 at 14:44 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social

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Devine Lu Linvega

@bitsplusatoms Oh wow, that must have been something to be there first hand. I'm just past the point where a competing IBM computer that had a basic green and black screen basically stole the market, by being cheaper. Were you there also during the creation of the Dorado?

12 Aug 2023 at 14:50 | Open on merveilles.town

Joe Pasqua

@neauoire Dorado was up and running when I arrived. During my new-hire orientation (or whatever they called it), I got my first demo of smalltalk running on a Dorado. It blew my mind.

It was the now-classic demo of going into the smalltalk source, making a simple change to the selection highlighting method, hitting “accept”, and having the new selection model work immediately. It was so fast and so seamless that it seemed like magic.

12 Aug 2023 at 15:03 | Open on mastodon.social