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The Autodesk File
** Next:** Introduction
The Autodesk File
Bits of History, Words of Experience
Edited by
John Walker
Frames edition of this document.
Other editions, some suitable for reading offline.
- Introduction
- Working Paper
- Information Letter 1
- Structure of the business
- The issue of liability
- Changes after the business is running
- Terminating products
- What to call the company
- How much of a share to buy
- Order of magnitude financial figures
- The role of MSL principals
- The promise of this venture
- Responsiveness
- Philosophy
- Potential Products for MSP
- Information Letter 2
- What to Name the Company
- Information Letter 3
- Information Letter 4
- Initial Stock Distribution
- Information Letter 5
- Progress Organising the Company
- Changes from Original Organisation Plan
- What Happens Next
- Just a Few More Little Things
- Regular Meetings
- Purchasing
- Micro-CAD Progress
- Autodesk Progress
- Other Product Progress
- Product Polish and Packaging
- Subchapter S Election Alternative
- Autodesk Products
- Autodesk Work Distribution
- Information Letter 6
- Information Letter 7
- Information Letter 8
- August 1982 Meeting
- AutoCAD-80 Development Log
- 1982 Annual Meeting
- Quality Department Priorities
- Meetings: December '82, January '83
- February 1983 Meeting
- March 1983 Meeting
- June 1983 Meeting
- AutoCAD Wish List
- Crisis Letter
- John Walker's Business Plan
- Proposed Autodesk Organization
- July 1983 Meeting
- Low Rent 3D
- Electric Malcolm
- October 1983 Meeting
- Piece of Cake
- Information Letter 10
- Information Letter 11
- The Deal on the Table
- AutoCAD Lite
- Taxes and Such
- Why Lisp?
- Number One
- Prime Time
- Initial Public Offering
- Surplus Value
- Information Letter 12
- Time of Turbulence
- Speech at Silverado
- Super Programmers
- CAD: the Heart of Computer Science
- The Computer Revolution
- AutoBits
- Job Titles
- AutoSketch: Not Insane
- Autodesk Technical Seminars
- CAD: The Final Frontier
- Marinchip Defeats IBM
- Dear Jim Meadlock...
- Yet Wah 3D
- Spine Police
- VHSIC-Based Product Stuns Industry
- What Is 3D What
- AutoShield
- The Guts of a New Machine
- The Bozo Filter
- High Performance Bicycles
- A Journey Not to Forget
- AutoThing
- Flat-out Programming
- Hardware Lock Debater's Guide
- Information Letter 13
- Cadetron and Solid Modeling
- Removing the Hardware Lock
- Urgent Fury
- The Portable Data Base
- Breaking the 3D Logjam
- Jeremiad
- Urgent Worry
- The Golden Age of Engineering
- Cosmic Perspective
- External Tanks
- Source Distribution
- The Morning After
- Glasnost
- Where's It All Going?
- Xanadu
- Bored of Directors
- Valedictory
- L'Envoi: the First Six Years
- Technological Leadership
- Through the Looking Glass
- AutoCAD Expo Moscow
- Golden Hammer
- One Hundred Million Dollars
- The New Technological Corporation
- Theme 1: The time value of money
- Theme 2: Leverage vs. debt
- Theme 3: The talent-constrained enterprise
- Theme 4: Quantum economics
- Theme 5: Equilibrium and efficient markets
- Variation 1: The New Technological Corporation
- Variation 2: What to do with the money?
- Variation 3: Competitive strategies
- Conclusions and recommendations
- Generic Software Acquisition
- Why Cellular Automata?
- Understanding AMIX
- Batting .300
- We'll Return, After This Message
- Caustic Moment
- The Hardware Lock Strikes Back
- ``Autodesk Arrogance''
- Why Molecular Modeling?
- Whither AutoCAD?
- Introduction
- Autodesk as High-End Vendor
- The Business of Autodesk
- An Opportunity
- The High End: What is it?
- Traditional CAD/CAM
- The View from the Top
- Real Users buy Desktop CAD
- Drafting vs the Total Solution
- The Autodesk Customer
- The Turnkey Customer
- Integration as the Key
- Design/Manufacturing Process
- The Total Solution
- The Reality
- The Market
- Mechanical Design Automation
- AutoCAD Designer
- Technical Content
- AutoCAD
- Conclusions
- Final Words
- Nanotechnology in Manufacturing
- What's Been Happening
- CPU Performance
- Oh Wow
- Oh Well
- Oh Shit
- Oh Yeah!
- Technological Transitions
- Five Industrial Revolutions
- Metre Scale
- Metres To Millimetres
- Millimetres To Micrometres
- Micrometres To Nanometres
- Plenty Of Room
- Writing With Atoms
- Molecular Engineering
- Many Challenges-But Many Paths To Follow
- Steps Along the Way: Molecular Electronics
- Bacteriorhodopsin Optical Memory
- Sixth Industrial Revolution: Molecular Engineering
- Seventh Industrial Revolution: Replicating Machines
- The Argument For Design
- Max Q
- Information Letter 14
- View from the Ridge
- Valuing Corporate Image
- Simulation Isn't Reality
- The New Autodesk
- Choose Wisely
- Added Value
- Stating the Problem
- Al Green Retires
- Incentives, Deterrence, and Defence
- Searching for a New CEO
- European Software Centre
- The Dark Night of the Soul
- Reporter at Work
- AutoCAD for Windows
- MicroTimes
- New Leadership for Autodesk
- Farewell, Xanadu
- Micro Engineering Solutions Acquisition
- Patent Nonsense
- Programs Are Programs
- World War Four
- Background-Is Software a Business?
- It's a Program, Stupid
- Let's Crunch Some Numbers
- Does This Sound Familiar? 1
- Does This Sound Familiar? 2
- Does This Sound Familiar? 3
- Does This Sound Familiar? 4
- Does This Sound Familiar? 5
- Does This Sound Familiar? 6
- Getting There
- The Enabling Prerequisite
- Summary and Conclusion
- AutoCAD LT
- Creation/Evolution
- Ten Years After
- Before Autodesk
- Basic Development Strategy
- Details-The 68000 Node Board
- Details-Software Conversion Plans
- Background-Why not the 9995/99000?
- Background-Why not the Z8001?
- Details-What about the Z8000 software?
- Details-What does this do to other projects?
- Details-Whither the 9900 and its customer base?
- Details-Marketing strategy
- Details-Who pays and who gets what?
- Details-Things to be resolved
- The View from Sweden
- Autodesk Trivia Quiz
- Financial Results
- Autodesk Stock Price History
- Product Release History
- About this Edition
- Contents
- Index
Editor: John Walker