Talk for Stanford's EE 292J

Via John Markoff, I was invited to a conversation with Jonathan Dotan and the students of his EE292J course entitled Designing for Authenticity. Below the fold are my brief introductory remarks, and some notes for the discussion. Thank you for inviting a relic from earlier days in the Valley. As with all my talks, the text of this brief introduction will go up at blog.dshr.org later this afternoon. Sun GX version 1 It is just over 60 years since I wrote my first program, and just under 50 years since I started using Unix. I was part of the Andrew team at Carnegie-Mellon, then an early employee at Sun Microsystems. At Sun I was the operating system guy for Curtis Priem and Chris Malachowsky's team that built Sun's GX graphics chip. The GX was a big success but making it so was an extremely frustrating experience. When Curtis and Chris quit Sun and started hanging out in the now legendary Denny's with Jen-Hsun Huang, I also quit to become Nvidia's employee #4. Curtis and I designed UDA…