Agreed, here's the quoted copy/paste for those scrolling by: > Former Multician here. Andre was super-smart, but it is perhaps also relevant that even the most

Agreed, here's the quoted copy/paste for those scrolling by: > Former Multician here. Andre was super-smart, but it is perhaps also relevant that even the most junior developers (as I was then) had quiet private space to work with large desks. All design was done offline. Multics terminals were like type-writers (although video did show up near the end), hence no stream of popups. The environment both allowed for and demanded focus and concentration. This is no longer so.