We’ve asked a lot of questions to learn more about their needs, and today I am pleased to introduce you to the new Mac instance! Over the last couple of years, AWS users have told us that they want to be able to run macOS on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). As a developer, I was attracted to the Mac’s rich collection of built-in APIs and services, and still treasure my phone book edition of the Inside Macintosh documentation! Steve Jobs unveiled the Macintosh in January 1984 and my employer ordered several right away, along with a pair of the Apple Lisa systems that were used as cross-development hosts. In early 1983, rumor had it that Apple Computer would soon introduce a new system that was affordable, compact, self-contained, and very easy to use. I followed the emerging PC industry with great interest, voraciously reading every new issue of Byte, InfoWorld, and several other long-gone publications.
In my first year of college someone gave me a phone number and said “call this with modem.” I did, it answered “PENTAGON TIP,” and I had access to ARPANET!
As a teenager I owned an Altair 8800 and an Apple II. Throughout the course of my career I have done my best to stay on top of new hardware and software.
