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by alwillis 3447 days ago
Jobs is complicated because he had technical knowledge and design taste.

Most engineers wouldn't have thought about having proportionally spaced fonts back in the 80's when personal computers only had 80 x 24 fixed withd character green phosphor displays.

When Jobs dropped out of regular college and dropped back in to take the classes he was truly interested in, he took calligraphy; years later that lead to the Mac being for first personal computer (the LISA had it too, but that was the $10,000 predecessor to the Mac) to have proportionally spaced, bitmap display.

That's not something Woz (or someone like him) would have prioritized for a brand new computing platform.