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Your statement about the Mac not shipping with BASIC is incorrect. Basic interpreters were available by default since the Apple II.
by gtsnexp 6y ago
Your statement about the Mac not shipping with BASIC is incorrect. Basic interpreters were available by default since the Apple II.
- PaulHoule 6y agoThe Apple ][ has two BASIC interpreters (the integer basic Woz wrote and the Applesoft basic licensed from Microsoft.) The original Mac was a demo -- with 128MB of RAM it struggled to do anything at all, with 512MB you had some room to work with. Original development for a mac was done on a different computer. There was no compatibility between the Apple ][ and the Mac. Apple did not realize how long the ][ would last. If they'd known that, and known that Motorola was going to abandon the 68k, they might have come out with something like this earlier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIGS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIGS which could have evolved an entirely different direction and avoided more than one of the near death experiences the Mac went through.
- gtsnexp 6y agoThanks for the detailed reply.I still fail to see your point and it's relation to software freedom.