RIP Steve Jobs

[snaw]

BBC claimed he invented the mouse now, at this rate he will have broken the Enigma code by tea time.

I like this dude more:

Douglas Engelbart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[NickFitz]

All that story told me was that the processor in the Macintosh was a bit tulip

8MHz 68000 - same as the (later) Atari ST and Amiga.

Well, strictly speaking the Amiga was clocked marginally slower to be able to interleave memory access with the video chip, which also prevented use of the TAS (test-and-set) instruction.

It was vastly superior to the 8086 used in IBM PC-and-compatibles of the day - well, that was my opinion, based on working as an assembly language programmer on both. Here's a more objective comparison

[NickFitz]

BBC claimed he invented the mouse now, at this rate he will have broken the Enigma code by tea time.

Mr Jobs had built a reputation as a forthright and demanding leader who could take niche technologies - such as the mouse and graphical user interface, using onscreen icons rather than text - and make them popular with the general public.
- BBC News

Nothing there about inventing the mouse, just making it "popular".

[Zoiderman]

CEO of big money making, monopolistic organisation pops his clogs. Nothing to see here. Not a fan, not a believer of him being the messiah either. Dilley's death troubles me more...

[amcdonald]

RIiP

FTFY

[minestrone]

Mr Jobs had built a reputation as a forthright and demanding leader who could take niche technologies - such as the mouse and graphical user interface, using onscreen icons rather than text - and make them popular with the general public.
- BBC News

Nothing there about inventing the mouse, just making it "popular".

11 O'Clock BBC 24 news.

[Zoiderman]

Never bought into iTulip they bought out, he wasn't an innovator, the iPod was just a modern take on the personal tape players of the 80's, and, iirc, wasn't even the first PMP on the market. His stuff just looked nice. Battery was tulip, so you couldn't track a proper bike ride. Just a bunch of useless tulip; nothing Apple have produced has changed my life, and most around me. Biggest bunch of over hyped tulipe I have seen in ages. A buddhist with $8.3bn personal wealth. Yup, that makes proper sense.

Pfft

[Churchill]

8MHz 68000 - same as the (later) Atari ST and Amiga.

Well, strictly speaking the Amiga was clocked marginally slower to be able to interleave memory access with the video chip, which also prevented use of the TAS (test-and-set) instruction.

It was vastly superior to the 8086 used in IBM PC-and-compatibles of the day - well, that was my opinion, based on working as an assembly language programmer on both. Here's a more objective comparison

Oooh, are we going to have a debate about segmented architecture versus linear?

[DimPrawn]

Never bought into iTulip they bought out, he wasn't an innovator, the iPod was just a modern take on the personal tape players of the 80's, and, iirc, wasn't even the first PMP on the market. His stuff just looked nice. Battery was tulip, so you couldn't track a proper bike ride. Just a bunch of useless tulip; nothing Apple have prodcued has changed my life, and most around me. Biggets buch of over hyped tulipe I have seen in ages. A buddhist with $8.3bn personal wealth. Yup, that makes proper sense.

Pfft

My iPhone makes a big difference to my life. Well, when the battery isn't flat, oh and it gets a signal and two coincide, which is about once every 5 years.

Certainly has cut down on my phone bill though.

[minestrone]

We just have to keep the apple loving Jobs necrophiliacs going for the next couple of hours then their batteries will die.