Re: [NTLK] Defying Gravity

From: Larry Yaeger <lsynt_at_beanblossom.in.us>
Date: Fri May 09 2008 - 00:09:36 EDT

At 11:05 PM -0400 5/8/08, Doug wrote:
>In Defying Gravity, I remember reading that one of the Newton OS
>programmers committed suicide. Did anyone on the list happen to know
>the programmer? Larryy? What happened that drove him to kill himself?

Sorry, I don't remember that (thankfully). I was over in ATG, the Advanced Technology Group, throughout most of my involvement with Newton, so I mostly had regular contact with the Newton engineers who were working in the area of the interface between the recognizer and the system. I did officially join the Newton company that had been spun out, right before it was spun back in and disbanded to deploy the talent on the core Mac business. Sigh.

- larryy

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