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Sep 19, 2026
Richard FeldmanHOST
So his job was to get these C programmers to have better productivity somehow.
Richard FeldmanHOST
And Byte Magazine comes out with Smalltalk on the cover, and he reads about it, and he's like, oh, this encapsulation thing seems like it would solve some of the problems we're having.
Richard FeldmanHOST
And it's funny to me because at that point in time, StandardML existed.
Richard FeldmanHOST
So if he'd read an academic journal instead of Byte Magazine, he might have read about ML modules.
Richard FeldmanHOST
And maybe instead of making Objective-C, which was him taking C and adding Smalltalk-y stuff to it, maybe he makes MLC or something like that, right? Well, you know, I
Casey MuratoriGUEST
had that exact thought.
Casey MuratoriGUEST
Um, in the, uh, like in those papers where, uh, like where it's not papers, they're magazine publications where Strewstip is basically saying like, here's what object oriented programming is.
Casey MuratoriGUEST
Like he has that one, like what is object oriented programming? And then he has another one that's like about C++.
Mohan NairGUEST
And then all of a sudden, Windows started to turn up.
Mohan NairGUEST
And then in Very early on, 1984 or 85, I think Byte Magazine, which you might remember, Byte Magazine came out with the first article that said, here is the Macintosh.
Mohan NairGUEST
By the way, if you look at that magazine, you will see a byline written by me.
Mohan NairGUEST
because I published my first article as a writer in that same issue in Bike Magazine talking about benchmarking and how not to benchmark against someone else but yourself.
Mohan NairGUEST
And then all of a sudden, Windows started to turn up.
Mohan NairGUEST
And then in Very early on, 1984 or 85, I think Byte Magazine, which you might remember, Byte Magazine came out with the first article that said, here is the Macintosh.
Mohan NairGUEST
By the way, if you look at that magazine, you will see a byline written by me.
Mohan NairGUEST
because I published my first article as a writer in that same issue in Bike Magazine talking about benchmarking and how not to benchmark against someone else but yourself.
Mohan NairGUEST
And ironic, you know, a billion dollars has transferred hands except for me.
Mohan NairGUEST
I'm still talking to you, Gary.
Ben CollierHOST
And yeah, I'll direct you all who are listening to go and check it out as well.
Jason ComptonHOST
And Ben S., who has corresponded with us before, shared some thoughts about one of the magazine episodes that we did that had that December 1980 issue of Byte Magazine, which really in itself could have been an entire feature.
Jason ComptonHOST
And he says, The editor interjects that Microsoft didn't mention Crowther and Woods in the game credits but should have.
Jason ComptonHOST
The reviewer goes on to say that Microsoft placed heavy copy protection on the game.
Jason ComptonHOST
But certainly, you know, in other people's features, that would sometimes happen.
Jason ComptonHOST
So, yeah, definitely a known thing.
Jason ComptonHOST
I can't, like, I haven't read enough Byte to say for sure whether that was characteristic of the publication.
Jason ComptonHOST
The other thing that I pointed out in corresponding with Ben is that, of course, in the more modern era, kind of early in my career, in the 90s, you'd probably get the article emailed back to you with some, hey, can you fix this up? And today, of course, we're going to do it in Google Docs or some other shared document format.
Jason SnellHOST
I don't know if they had had success, but...
Jason SnellHOST
And Byte magazine wrote a story about the West Coast Computer Faire and didn't mention Apple.
Myke HurleyHOST
Hmm.
Myke HurleyHOST
Is Byte magazine and the Byte Shop, are they involved together in any way?
Jason SnellHOST
No.
Myke HurleyHOST
Or is it just Byte? It's just Byte, the word.
Jason SnellHOST
It's just computer words.
Myke HurleyHOST
Right.
Jason SnellHOST
I don't know if they'd had success.
Jason SnellHOST
And Byte Magazine wrote a story about the West Coast Computer Fair and didn't mention Apple.
Myke HurleyHOST
Is Byte Magazine and the Byte Shop, are they involved together in any way? Or is it just Byte? It's just Byte.
Myke HurleyHOST
It's just computer words.
Myke HurleyHOST
So,
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Jason SnellHOST
and there are computer stores that are springing up that that's what they do is they will sell you a computer they'll probably sell you like a maintenance contract or something where there's a person who will troubleshoot it for you or whatever that's all starting to happen it's slow and it's small we think don't think of this in terms of high volume none of these products are really high volume yet But people do start loving the Apple II.
Myke HurleyHOST
Right.
Jason SnellHOST
Byte Magazine that ignored them at the West Coast Computer Fair wrote a review of it that said, I was able to turn on power and begin using the computer within five minutes of receipt, which is a rave.