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New $1 US coins to feature Steve Jobs and Cray-1 supercomputer — US Mint's 2026 American Innovation Program to memorialize computing history (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 29 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Jobs wasn't innovative, he knew innovative people and took their credit. He was a businessman.

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 6 days ago

Guy died of cancer because he thought he knew better than doctors. What a fucking idiot.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Steve Jobs was the Edison of personal computing.

[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Jobs was a glorified salesman. Edison was an oligarch notorious for lying, cheating, stealing, and his complete lack of ethics and morals.

I'm absolutely no fan of Jobs but Edison was the bigger bastard.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Jobs took credit for everyone else's work. He presented himself as a visionary and a creator, when he was mostly just a liar and a thief.

Maybe Edison was worse. I'm not saying Jobs was worse than Edison. I'm saying Jobs fabricated a legacy that a lot of people still believe, and will believe for a long time.

[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

Yeah I'll agree to that.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Wasn't Woz really the brain behind it all?

[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago

One of several, but the first and probably most influential. Met Woz. He's brilliant, but a weird dude.

[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago

If only there was a person who actually had anything to do with the Cray 1 they could put on it instead? Maybe that person will even share the name with the computer?

It gets worse the more you think about it. Cray and Jobs had completely opposing paradigms for how to develop computers. Cray was always innovating and providing capability, Jobs was always simplifying and burying low-level tools.

[–] Ascrod@midwest.social 9 points 6 days ago

Were Sacagawea and Susan B. Anthony too woke?

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 6 days ago

🤮

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

gross.

fuck Steve Jobs.

[–] AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

is this heads/tails? i dont think steve jobs had nothing to do with cray-1?

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So, you think Jobs had something to do with cray-1? What was it?

[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago

He's clearly saying he doesn't think Jobs was related to Cray. The double negative is likely unintentional and English is not everyone's first language.