topic Re: Autodesk, Inc. Information Letter # 14 in Modeling

Autodesk, Inc. Information Letter # 14

Eduardo Rolon — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:57:52 GMT

Watching an interview with one of the founders of Autodesk I was reminded of this 1991 article

www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/chapter2_86.html

and one of the good parts

www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/subsection2_86_0_9.html#SECTION00860900000000000000

for those interested the interview is episode 7 at

www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/shows/

Enjoy the weekend reading

Re: Autodesk, Inc. Information Letter # 14

Thomas Holm — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 17:13:11 GMT

Thanks, Eduardo! That was an interesting link! I spent most of this day in bed reading John Walker's recap of Autodesk's early years!

It may be lucky for us Archicad users that Autodesk never really revived the creativity from that period.

http://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/autofile.html

Re: Autodesk, Inc. Information Letter # 14

stefan — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 08:31:52 GMT

I'm reading through the book. It's quite long, but full of nice anecdotes.

I'm still not sure how Autodesk would look today, if John Walker still had his say in the full organisation. I suppose commercial but creative 😉

And last week I read that it is the same John Walker who wrote one of the first 'viruses', or at least a Unix quiz-game that multiplied itself over every network it was attached to.