James Likes Gort

An airhacks.fm conversation with James Gosling (@errcraft) about:
"Hello World" with PDP assembly in 1969, exciting places like
universities, the University of Calgary (alumni award), dumpster
diving to find usable electronics, software does not consume any
resources, James loves building things, The Day the Earth Stood
Still, Gort is cool, building Gort from tin foil and cans, there
were no answers how to build a brain, working for physics
department in the age of 14, measuring the interactions between
solar winds and the upper atmosphere, ISIS-2 satellite, PDP-8
assembler, CDC 6400, Fortran, PL-1, spending all the free time with
computers, teachers were worried, James enjoyed downhill (skiing),
Pascal, Multics, Simula, there was no C before 1976, James wrote
emacs at graduate school in C, James's emacs became standard on
Unix, Bill Joy kept asking James repeatedly to join Sun, James met
Andy Bechtolsheim before joining Sun, James joined Sun in 1984,
James was involved with User Interfaces at Sun, Sun was missing out
on stuff like telephone headsets, VCRs and IoT was already
happening, IoT literally launched Java, re-inventing the wheel and
repeating the errors in networking, ideas for the JVM, Three Rivers
Computer like Xerox Alto was only interested in hardware and wanted
to reuse software, writing software for PERQ with UCSD Pascal,
porting from PERQ to VAX, James was too lazy to port and started
with transcoding, translation worked surprisingly well and
outperformed C, Project Green started in early 1991 and ended in
Sep 1992, Java was running at the end of 1991, the implementation
of the first Java compiler took a couple of months, the first
compiler version was written in Python, the intermediate format was
the instruction set itself, Java bytecode follows the polish
notation, or execution on a stack machine, OAK was growing outside
James's window, OAK was renamed to Java because of legal reasons,
James likes coffee ...and tea, Sun was a wonderful place to be,
John Gage was cheerleader in chief, Scott (checkout episode #19)
didn't like to spend money on marketing, problem with JINIs
marketing was lack of marketing, RMI fighted with CORBA (end of
first part - to be continued...).