Interview With Initiator of DirectX

Miguel de Icaza writes "There's a great interview from Shacknews with Alex St. John, one of the earlier DirectX / gaming guys. He talks about almost losing his job going against Bill Gates, and talks a bit about the MS development & political process. 'You know why the X on the Xbox is a glowing green X? The original codename for Direct X was the Manhattan Project, because strategically it was an effort to displace Japanese game consoles with PCs and ultimately the Xbox. We called it the Manhattan Project because that was the codename for the program developing the nuclear bomb. We had a glowing radiation logo for the prototype for Direct X, and of course as soon as that got out and the press covered it, it caused a scandal.'"

Re:Codenames

[Anonymous Coward]

I have it on good authority that the codename for the PS3 was Nan-King.

Them japs sure love rapin the commoners!

Re:Nice cigar

[Anonymous Coward]

You know what Freud said about men who smoke cigars, right? They have a subconcious desire to perform fellatio.

That was just Freud's way of letting people know he had a conscious desire to perform fellatio.