Day: October 5, 2004

John Edwards: “The president of the United States actually has to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time.”

Here’s something that’s been sitting on top of my mind and I’d really like to know. Apple OS X development team: How did you come up with the idea to build the new operating system on top of Unix? Were you just sitting around one day in the conference room drumming pencils on the table…

Brent Simmons: The more we thought about it, the more it was obvious that the weblog editor had to be a separate application. In order to improve both NetNewsWire and the weblog editor, we needed to induce mitosis.