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URI Oral History of Brian L. Halla [pdf] (2013)
spit2wind wrote 16 hours 24 min ago:
It says "Oral History". Is there an audio recording? The Computer
History Museum has recordings for other people. I can't find one for
this.
z0r wrote 21 hours 22 min ago:
The retitling of this submission removes the submitter's intent in
sharing the article. It was something like: Gary Kildall wrote Pixar's
first renderer - before the renaming.
dang wrote 17 hours 13 min ago:
The submitted title was "Gary Killdall, creator of CP/M, wrote
Pixar's original 3D renderer".
Submitters: If you want to say what you think is important about an
article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread.
Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's:
[1] (From [2] : "Please use the original title, unless it is
misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.")
URI [1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
URI [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
gwern wrote 19 hours 21 min ago:
Direct link:
URI [1]: https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20...
cs702 wrote 21 hours 33 min ago:
Wow. The same Gary Kildall who was first approached by IBM for a PC
operating system[a] helped write Pixar's first 3-D renderer.
At a minimum, Kildall's Wikipedia page should be updated with his
contribution to Pixar!
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[a] Bill Gates was IBM's second choice, because at the time Microsoft
didn't have a PC OS:
URI [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall#IBM_dealings
magic_man wrote 21 hours 18 min ago:
Interesting how he was also born in seattle. Seems like how a lot of
pioneers of the PC are from there.
cs702 wrote 19 hours 38 min ago:
Maybe there was something on the water they drank as kids? (I'm
joking, in case it's not obvious!)
BirAdam wrote 19 hours 16 min ago:
Itâs weird because there are several hotspots like that:
Seattle, SLC, Akron, and so on. Each one pumps out greatness for
a time, and then things move again.
jdougan wrote 14 hours 35 min ago:
It works internationally too. eg. von Neumann, Teller, Wigner
etc. All Hungarians.
URI [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists...
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