Then there was Taylor’s habit of speaking in parables when he could not articulate his ideas in the precise argot of engineering. “When we were building MAXC, Taylor told Chuck and me a bunch of stuff we couldn’t understand at all at the time,” Lampson recalled in amusement. “We dismissed it as the ravings of a technically illiterate manager. But looking back on it two years later, it was crystal clear what he was trying to tell us to do: Build the Alto.”
