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Oral History of Gary Davidian, part 2 of 2
Part two of a Computer History Museum oral history with Gary Davidian, covering his work on the 68000 emulator for PowerPC at Apple, Power Computing, clean-room contracting and later performance optimization work. It is nearly three hours long.
Why HN readers recommended it
Pointed to as a primary-source interview on Apple's architecture transitions, emulation and microcode work.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Computer History Museum
- Topic
- computer history
- Format
- interview
- Level
- advanced
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2022–2025
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andrewf on Hacker News · 2022-11
In Rereading: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy KidderHi Ken, Nice article. While reading I remembered that I watched some time ago the Oral History of Gary Davidian and he was quite bit involved with microcoding. And if I were you I would try asking him if he could be able to give …
mesrik on Hacker News · 2025-03
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