ADSP: Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs Episode 40: Star Trek vs PowerPC (with Sean Parent)
In this episode, Sean Parent tells the story of the battle between Project Star Trek and PowerPC.
About the Guest:
Sean Parent is a principal scientist and software architect for Adobe Photoshop. Sean has been at Adobe since 1993 when he joined as a senior engineer working on Photoshop and later managed Adobe’s Software Technology Lab. In 2009 Sean spent a year at Google working on Chrome OS before returning to Adobe. From 1988 through 1993 Sean worked at Apple, where he was part of the system software team that developed the technologies allowing Apple’s successful transition to PowerPC.
Show Notes
Date Recorded: 2021-07-28
Date Released: 2021-08-27
- Blue Meanies
- Taligent
- Motorola 68000
- Pentium
- RISC (Reduced instruction set computer)
- Novell
- Apple Star Trek project
- MacHack
- PowerPC
- John Sculley
- GARY DAVIDIAN AND HIS 68000 EMULATOR
- Rhapsody (operating system)
- Epic Games v. Apple
Intro Song Info
Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic
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