Steve Wozniak was supposedly invoved in the design of ADB, but it's so hard to confirm that that I'm starting to wonder if it's a myth. The closest to confirmation I can find is a reference to "the ADB, created by Steve Wozniak" on Bill Buxton's input-device timeline https://www.billbuxton.com/inputTimeline.html (which at least dates back to 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110410220530/http://billbuxton... ) but there's no citation to support it. Any ideas, anyone?
Woz was almost certainly there when ADB was created. It's documented that he was quite involved in the design of the Apple IIGS. And ADB was created for the IIGS (right?)
But that doesn't quite mean he was involved in the design of ADB itself. And we know he isn't listed on the patents.
I’m not trying to be crass, but SW did very little engineering after 1981. By 1985, he was still openly struggling. He may have been involved in integration but it’s very unlikely that he “invented” adb.
If anything there’s likely plenty of work for body shops like IBM in reviewing and correcting AI-generated work product that has been thrown into production recently.
A well-known or once-well-known article from what seems to me (I'm not an expert) to be roughly the beginning of the current wave of AI progress and optimism. This seems like an appropriate moment to think about it again, especially since Moravec predicted human-level AI for about now:
> This paper describes how the performance of AI machines tends to improve at the same pace that AI researchers get access to faster hardware. The processing power and memory capacity necessary to match general intellectual performance of the human brain are estimated. Based on extrapolation of past trends and on examination of technologies under development, it is predicted that the required hardware will be available in cheap machines in the 2020s.
Right: I don't have direct experience, but from what I recall reading it was only over the Subversion era that it really became strikingly abnormal for a professional software team to use no VC software at all. When there was software it could be ... exotic. The FOSS culture's pre-SVN norm of "CVS everywhere" put it notably ahead of others.
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