49K views · Jun 22, 2017 · 2:31:38 · 3 HN recommenders · 5 mentions · discussed 2017–2024
A Computer History Museum oral history with Avie Tevanian covering his math talent, work on the Mach microkernel at CMU, joining NeXT, leading NEXTSTEP development and the 1996 Apple acquisition.
Why Hacker News points people here: Recommended as a long, rich first-hand account of Mach, NeXT and Apple history and of working for Steve Jobs.
“Must watch recollection of the history of Mach and NeXT and Apple by Avie Tevanian.”HN comment, 2017
“Must watch recollection of the history of Mach and NeXT and Apple by Avie Tevanian.”
Long but great recollection of Mach, NeXT and Apple history.
Must watch recollection of the history of Mach and NeXT and Apple by Avie Tevanian. Long but great. 1/2] this video (early days) 2/2] link (around Apple acquisition and beyond)
“The Computer History Museum has an interesting long form interview with Avie”
Long form interview with Mach lead Avie Tevanian.
Correct. The Mach research project at Carnegie Mellon aimed to build a replacement kernel for BSD that supported distributed and parallel computing. Next's VP of Software Engineering, Avie Tevanian, was one of the Mach project leads. Richard Rashid, who lead the Mach project ended up running Microsoft Research's worldwide operations. Their work on a virtual memory subsystem got rolled back into BSD. link The Computer History Museum has an interesting long form interview with Avie: Part 1: this video Part 2: link
“He also covers what it was like to work for Steve Jobs.”
Covers open source use at NeXT and Apple and working for Jobs.
The Computer History Museum has one of their long form interviews with Avie Tevanian, who led the creation of Mach (multiprocessor BSD) as his Ph.D project. (His faculty advisor went on to head Microsoft Research) Next and Microsoft both sought to hire him, and he eventually went on to be in charge of the OS at Next and later Apple. One of the topics he covered in the interview was how Next (and Apple) decided to use and contribute back to open sourced software at the lower levels of their stack. He also covers what it was like to work for Steve Jobs. this video
“you will probably enjoy Avie's oral history”
Oral histories from Avie Tevanian and other NeXT engineers.
I haven't watched it in a while, but you will probably enjoy Avie's oral history (along with Blaine Garst and Steve Naroff's). this video
“The Computer History Museum's long form interview with Avie Tevanian is a good resource for this era.”
Good resource on this era of computing.
The Computer History Museum's long form interview with Avie Tevanian is a good resource for this era. this video
