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Because of the original 128K Mac's limited memory, FORTH was one of the first actually useful language you could host on it.
by protomyth 5y ago
Because of the original 128K Mac's limited memory, FORTH was one of the first actually useful language you could host on it.
- PaulHoule 5y agoThe 128K Mac had a lot more memory than most other computers in 1984, but it was not a lot of room to fit a GUI in. Oddly, within a few years people had shoehorned GUIs into much smaller machines, such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system)
- protomyth 5y agoThe 128K Mac had a lot more memory than most other computers in 1984 They very issue where Byte shows the Macintosh had a lot of computer ads with PC's starting at 128K and being expandable to 512K or 640K. The Macintosh was under specified in memory compared to non-GUI PCs of its era.