Dan Luu on Nostr: I wonder why, around the turn of the century, hardware companies were much more ...
I wonder why, around the turn of the century, hardware companies were much more likely to build their own state of the art tools (as in
https://mastodon.social/@danluu/110793854770298212) than software companies. IBM had quite a few tools that were better than anything money could buy, not just SixthSense. Until its demise due to bad business decisions, DEC had even more impressive tooling than IBM.
Even the little startup I worked for mostly used a stack that was better than you could get via commercial tools.
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