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When Apple ported their code from the Lisa to the Macintosh they had to rewrite a lot of Pascal code in C and assembly to make it fit into the ROM's. There was
by Gibbon1 6y ago
When Apple ported their code from the Lisa to the Macintosh they had to rewrite a lot of Pascal code in C and assembly to make it fit into the ROM's. There was also an issue 100% standard Pascal was useless for writing micro computer programs because it couldn't do any IO outside the console and files. C on the other hand through pointers and inline assembly allowed you to directly monkey with the hardware.
Thing also forgotten how many early PC programs were written in assembly.
- ncmncm 6y agoThe Mac was programmed in Object Pascal and assembly. No C anywhere. C compilers for the Mac came along later, and even Apple A/UX Unix System V with BSD extensions, and Gcc. A/UX ran pretty nicely in 8M on an SE/30 (512x342 mono CRT), with a MacOS 9 GUI emulator you could run xterms on.
- Gibbon1 6y agoYou are correct I mis-remembered.