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the GUI code for the earliest macs was absolutely a great feat of engineering by getting my hands dirty with the system, I'm impressed by the way things were d
by cy384 5y ago
the GUI code for the earliest macs was absolutely a great feat of engineering
by getting my hands dirty with the system, I'm impressed by the way things were designed for the wimpiest processors (and also getting a lot of insight into the flaws of the OS that were exposed as machines became more powerful)
- fzzzy 5y agoThey really managed to find ways to make it work despite the hardware of the day. There was a lot of hand coded assembly until the mid 90s.
- tambourine_man 5y agoI, and I’m sure a lot of others here, would love to read about that.
- dev_tty01 5y agohttps://www.folklore.org https://www.folklore.org
- tambourine_man 5y agoI’m aware of folklore.org, thanks. I’ve read it through and through.