Bill Gates had Paul Allen.
Steve Jobs had Steve Wozniak.
There are a lot of parallels in their origin stories and creative paths.
Almost as if they were “intelligence community” creations.
Our two early personal computer digital pioneers, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. Children of the 50’s
Britain’s two early personal computer digital pioneers, Steve Furber and Roger Wilson, (now Sophie Wilson). Children of the 50’s
Wozniak wrote some of the best 6502 assembly code I have ever seen! i.e. The interface code to control the floppy drive for the Apple.
I loved coding for the 6502!
Wilson went on to develop the Firepath Processor(ARM) that made high speed DSL possible over a simple copper twisted pair. (pots)
I do not consider Gates to be a peer of these fine people. He is a creepy businessman of questionable ethics.
Wilson once remarked to me in an email that she was not very good at math.. but it did not seem to hampered her work in processor design.
The first FirePath SoC was the BCM6410, a single chip
12-channel DSL digital transceiver.
Claude Shannon (The Shannon Limit) would have loved the technology of the Firepath.