Sujet : Re: The Lisa (was: The DOS 3.3 SYS.COM Bug Hunt)
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.miscDate : 28. Feb 2025, 22:46:31
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On 28 Feb 2025 09:49:01 GMT, Stefan Ram wrote:
Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote or quoted:
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Me: So, how do you program it?
IIRC at one point in time around 1981, the answer was:
You buy a Lisa.
The original 128K Mac was simply too resource-starved to self-host any
useful development environment.
Except ... Forth. I think there was a Forth-based product called “Neon”
that actually let you write programs on a 128K Mac, to run on a 128K Mac.
The more expensive 512K Mac (not that the 128K Mac was cheap) opened a few
more opportunities for self-hosted development. “What will we do with all
that memory?” people asked. Andy Herzfeld answered: “Why not multitask
more than one program at once? Behold, I give you ... Switcher!”
Then the Mac Plus in 1986 launched a whole new era. Suddenly the Macintosh
wasn’t a toy any more.
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