MicroUnity, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where MicroUnity comes up
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 15:20 Brendan Eich So a friend from SGI who'd come in from a team at IBM, Jeff Weinstein, had gone ahead of me to a company called MicroUnity.
- ▶ 15:28 Brendan Eich And MicroUnity, you probably haven't heard of, but it's got a lot of patents, and it's successfully litigated them from 20 years ago to maybe 10 years ago.
- ▶ 15:46 Brendan Eich Because MicroUnity wanted to create a software programmable set-top box.
- ▶ 15:52 Ben Gilbert And there's only one thing that I actually knew about MicroUnity coming into this.
- ▶ 15:56 Ben Gilbert Wasn't the chief architect at MicroUnity the same person as, uh, both MIPS and Next with Steve Jobs?
- ▶ 16:09 Brendan Eich So he was the full architect at MicroUnity.
- ▶ 16:12 Brendan Eich So MicroUnity was like practical grad school for me because it didn't go anywhere.