[HN Gopher] Antic Magazine Interviews Alan Reeve, the Creator of...
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       Antic Magazine Interviews Alan Reeve, the Creator of the Diamond OS
       (1990)
        
       Author : rbanffy
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2025-11-11 19:52 UTC (12 days ago)
        
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       | ilaksh wrote:
       | Really interesting how many layers of competition were going on.
       | Not only were different computer manufacturers competing with
       | each other, but different generations of computers from that
       | manufacturer were competing, like Atari ST versus Atari 8-bit. I
       | had not realized that.
       | 
       | Anyway, it would be really interesting to find out what Alan
       | Reeve is doing these days. I remember looking up someone who had
       | created a powerful assembler or something for the ZX Spectrum and
       | found out that he apparently became a web developer decades
       | later.
        
       | jhbadger wrote:
       | Interesting -- I wasn't aware of Diamond OS for the Atari 8-bits
       | -- it seems similar in concept to GEOS (which was available for
       | the Commodore 64 and 8-bit Apple II series, and later in a much
       | expanded version for x86 PCs) -- basically a GUI environment
       | running on machines where the popular wisdom was that such a
       | thing would be infeasible.
        
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