Actuality Group

Mike was the key compiler and tools developer for the ATT92010, aka Hobbit, processor. This was the original "iPhone" collaboration between AT&T and Apple, the vision that would later bring us Apple's spinoff company, ARM, Ltd., and an entirely new branch of microelectronics, Embedded Technology, and ultimately of course the iPhone. This was the origin of modern de facto standard object format, ELF, and its accompanying debug format, DWARF. With ongoing support from BeOS and MetaWare, Hobbit continued to attract researchers and developers for at least a decade, and beyond. In fact sightings still occur and rumor has it there still remain some Hobbit activity in a secret subterranean labyrinth beneath the Murray Hill facility.