Comment by wslh
11 hours ago
Clearly Steve Wozniak was a very unique [technical and geeky] guy at that time. Thinking about interoperability at that time was prophetic.
11 hours ago
Clearly Steve Wozniak was a very unique [technical and geeky] guy at that time. Thinking about interoperability at that time was prophetic.
I woldn't go so far as to say it was "prophetic". Contemporary DEC PDP-8 (OMNIBUS) and PDP-11 (UNIBUS / QBUS) systems have a similar approach to "interoperability", where cards for peripherals were also mapped into the machine's address space. It was great that Woz saw the utility of this and brought it into the homebrew/microcomputer design.
I think it was more driven by his own desire to not limit what future hardware hacking he wanted to do with this computer he just designed.