John Carmack: My Steve Jobs Stories
On October 25 1988, I gave Steve Jobs a demo of pie menus, NeWS, UniPress Emacs and HyperTIES at the Educom conference in Washington DC. His reaction was to jump up and down, point at the screen, and yell “That sucks! That sucks! Wow, that’s neat! That sucks!”<p>I tried explaining how we&#x27;d performed an experiment proving pie menus were faster than linear menus [1], but he insisted the liner menus in NeXT Step were the best possible menus ever.<p>But who was I to rain on his parade, two weeks after the first release of NeXT Step 0.8? (Up to that time, it was the most hyped piece of vaporware ever, and doubters were wearing t-shirts saying &quot;NeVR Step&quot;!)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@donhopkins&#x2F;an-empirical-comparison-of-pie-vs-linear-menus-466c6fdbba4b" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@donhopkins&#x2F;an-empirical-comparison-of-pi...</a>