I’ll give a talk at the International “QL & Mac are 25” event
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Early 1984 two milestones were unfolded on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Europe was first with the launch of the 32bit multitasking/multi-windowing Sinclair QL. 12 days later America saw the launch of the 32bit GUI Apple Macintosh. Because of this anniversary, the Sinclair QL community has organized the International "QL & Mac are 25" event.
I'll giving a talk about the Mac OS X, it's recent history, and about Cocoa development on the Mac and the iPhone. The title of the talk: "The Mac died nine years ago.". Don't worry, it was a good thing after all. Back in 2000 Mac OS 9 was outdated (remember the Mac bomb and crashes?) and Macs were slower than comparable PCs or Unix workstations. But everything changed when NeXTstep morphed to Mac OS X and later Macs got Intel processors. Would an iPhone have been possible without NeXTstep? Would we have a 64bit Mac OS?
If you happen to be near Lucerne, you're very welcome to attend this free event:
When? Sat/Sun Oct 31st/Nov 1st 2009. The talk will start Saturday at 13:00
Where? Verkehrshaus (Swiss Transport Museum) Lucerne, Switzerland
Check out the web page for the event for more information.
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Comments
Posted by Philotech (11/01 at 08:56 PM)
Posted by Ruben (11/02 at 08:13 AM)
Hi Philotech,
No, I didn’t have a QL - but it looks like I really missed something in the eighties. This weekend, I learned more about the machine and its history - it was well ahead of its time.
Do you still use QL? There’s QPC emulator and a Mac OS X emulator version is coming soon: http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/emu/index.html
Ruben
Posted by Philotech (11/10 at 08:59 PM)
Hi Ruben,
no I don’t and I have sold all QL-related stuff such as disks and magazines a long time ago. Don’t even have all my self-coded programs any more. So I don’t have any use for an emulator unfortunately. But I do remember the great times back then meeting crazy people on QL fairs in Germany and the UK…
Philotech
Posted by Ruben (11/11 at 08:03 AM)
Hi Philotech,
You might be interested in Urs Koenig’s personal QL site: http://www.qlvsjaguar.homepage.bluewin.ch/index_frames.html
Kind regards,
Ruben
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Hi Ruben!
Did you own a QL? I Had a QL since 1986 I think, and at that time it was one of the most exciting computers! I learned C and Assembler on it, and I never had such a great time with computers again, everything else after the QL was just too perfect for a self-taught spare-time programmer like me to program anything useful or fun that didn’t exist a million times already.
Philotech