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From: ss_at_allegro.com <(ss_at_allegro.com)>
Date: Mon Apr 12 19:16:16 1999

> Heh, Commodore thinking about user interfaces! What a concept! :-) (Sits
> down at his AmigaOS 3.0 1200, next to the C128DCR.)

Hey...Amiga wasn't totally at fault on the user interface...they
contracted it out to someone in England (Tim King?). He came up
with the strange stuff, and wrote it in BCPL (causing problems with
the kernel group, IIRC). I remember because Amiga called me in
1983 (again, IIRC) and asked me to bid on writing a user interface
so that they'd have one if Tim's fell through. I was in the process of
starting my own company, so I said "sorry, no".

(Why me? I'd interviewed with them in 1982 the same day a friend
of mine, Carl Sassenrath, interviewed with Symantec. We each
got an offer, and turned it down saying "you should talk to my friend,
instead". So, I then interviewed at Symantec, Carl interviewed at
Amiga. We both got offers, but I said "no, I'll stay at HP ... maybe
they'll really implement a technical ladder [they didn't]". Carl
accepted his. A year later I left HP.)

SS
Received on Mon Apr 12 1999 - 19:16:16 BST