Avie Tevanian: CMU math whiz goes from Mach to NeXT to Apple Software Chief | Oral History Part 1

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as a long, rich first-hand account of Mach, NeXT and Apple history and of working for Steve Jobs.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Computer History Museum

Topic

mach, next and apple history

Format

interview

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2024

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From the original HN conversations

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• Must watch recollection of the history of Mach and NeXT and Apple by Avie Tevanian. Long but great. 1/2] [VIDEO] (early days) 2/2] [LINK] (around Apple acquisition and beyond)

• 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 …

• 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 …