ANTIC Interview 358 - David Young, Omnimon - a podcast by Randy Kindig, Kay Savetz, Brad Arnold

 

David Young was the creator of Omnimon, the popular hardware monitor/debugger for the Atari 8-bit computers. His other products included DiskScan, a floppy disk utility; Supermon, the predecessor to Omnimon; Omnicom, a terminal program; and Omniview, an 80 column E: handler. 

 

This interview took place on June 11, 2018. In it, we discuss Wes Newell, whom I previously interviewed. 

 

"The IBM PC came out. I looked at it really hard. ... And I thought, 'You know, I really should develop products for this guy.' But it was just such a ugly beast."