That actually makes a bit of sense. NeXT (which reverse bought and absorbed Apple) was a weird pragmatic/bastard Smalltalk on top of Unix type system. To see that Avie hard worked on smalltalk (as well as microkernels) isn't a shock to me.
"Avie Tevanian: In undergrad school I
did something strange-I studied with TV
in the background. I remember they had
a lab that was mostly for grad students, but
they let me in. For computers back then,
they had Xerox Altos, which later inspired
the Macintosh, and I'd write games while
watching 1V. I'd write my own games,
and I created my own versions of Defender and Missile Command as an exercise.
My Macintosh versions of those two
games are still out there, free on the public domain. Missile Command's actually
not too bad - it teaches valuable lessons
about survivability in a nuclear holocaust."
