Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!funic!santra!santra!mpoutane From: mpoutane@niksula.hut.fi (Matti Samuli Poutanen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Innovations) Message-ID: Date: 21 Mar 91 16:54:14 GMT References: <1991Mar13.221028.8703@neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991Mar15.111919.22673@ncsu.edu> <1991Mar16.012516.13068@neon.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@santra.uucp (Cnews - USENET news system) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 23 In-Reply-To: torrie@cs.stanford.edu's message of 16 Mar 91 01:25:16 GMT In article <1991Mar16.012516.13068@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes: > Yes, this Lisa team included Larry Tesler (now head of Apple >Advanced Products). Larry had worked at Xerox for some years before >Apple - I recall his articles on Smalltalk which appeared in Byte >[remember when Byte used to devote each year's August issue to a new >computer language... Smalltalk was in one of those (Aug 1980 I think >off the top of my head). I remember it had another beautiful Robert >Tinney cover drawing. Yes, I remember the issue. Your mentioning Tinney's cover drawing makes me sorry I didn't order what in my opinion was his best cover drawing: "Number Crunching". The issue was an -86 one, if I recall correctly, and had a nutcracker with chips at its 'jaws' and two cracked numbers. I'm sure everyone who's seen it has'n forgotten it. BRILLIANT !! Matti Poutanen EMAIL: mpoutane@niksula.hut.fi Department of Physics Helsinki University of Technology Finland, Europe