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Swift on Mac OS 9 (2020)
- kybernetyk 5y agoCodeWarrior was such a cool name. I wish Apple kept it over Xcode :)
- rvense 5y agoCodeWarrior was commercial software, Apple's pre-OS X developer tools were called "Macintosh Programmer's Workshop". It was bought up by Motorola/Freescale around the turn of the century and lived on as tools for embedded processors until fairly recently, although the later releases were based on Eclipse.
- mistrial9 5y agoI wrote MPW tools integration for MetroWerks on contract; I delivered it to the VP Engineering for MWerks in person.
- _moof 5y agoCodeWarrior wasn't an Apple product; it was a third-party IDE made by a company called Metrowerks.
- ad-astra 5y agoAwesome awesome awesome awesome, love reading about these retro hacking adventures. Huge props to the author!
- shp0ngle 5y agoMac OS 9 was really aging even at that point in time, was crashing all the time from what I heard, and so on, but. It looks amazing. Monterey wishes it looked half as good as OS 9 looks like
- jibbit 5y agoOS9 was very stable, but some apps weren't e.g. photoshop would crash a lot, and as there was no protected memory space for processes every app crash balked the entire system. Happy days.
- anthk 5y agoOS9 was as stable as W98SE. Not as bad as W98/W95, but still crashy.
- guessbest 5y agoWin98SE was the high water mark of a fast, stable, small MS Windows environment. Here it is in under 5 megs of hd space : https://web.archive.org/web/20080306134751/http://www.eteak.chalmers.se/~e8gus/nano98/ https://web.archive.org/web/20080306134751/http://www.eteak....
- anthk 5y agoHeh. Small, but not stable. I suffered it at home. Sound/chipset driver install = BSOD. "High" load on IE with several (less than 10) Windows open = BSOD.
- shp0ngle 5y agoIf an app can crash your system, that means the system is not stable in my books
- jibbit 5y agoOh it wasn't robust by todays standards (or any standards really), but it would be wrong to infer from that that the quality of OS9 was inferior to OS8, OS7, rotting, etc.
- donatj 5y agoI say as a Mac user, while not inferior to other MacOS’s, it was however inferior to the stability of the counterpart versions of Windows, more-or-less since inception. The stability gap got wider and wider as the years went on and Windows 2k made OS9 look like a joke. OS X closed that gap and then quickly surpassed it.
- meerita 5y agoI'm trying to restore mac OS 9.2 on my still working iBook G4. I am ordering old CDs to see if I can restart the system. It has an Mac OS X Tiger installation that is blocking.
- eschaton 5y agoThe iBook G4 only officially supports Mac OS X and Classic (a Mac OS 9 virtual machine), don’t waste your time ordering old CDs that won’t work. If someone has managed to get Mac OS 9 running, they’ll probably post instructions or a download on a forum like Mac OS 9 Lives.
- meerita 5y agoWhen I bought the iBook it came with Mac OS 9 installed.
- donatj 5y agoGo until 1.3 supported all the way back to Windows 2000. I was pretty sad when they yanked support, the idea of becoming a hermit running Win2k writing Go is an oddly satisfying fantasy.
- bsaul 5y agogo is one of the rare language i can imagine using on a 20+ yo hardware / software stack. The whole go tooling is so much focused on simple and performant design that i think it wouldn't be too bad of an experience.
- mhh__ 5y agoUntil very recently the default linker for D on 32 bit Windows dated back to the 80s. You could nearly get D code working for a 16 bit computer due to the history of the dmd backend, even.
- throwra620 5y agoApart from it being an absolutely terrible programming language
- Shadonototra 5y agoGo is a wonderful language, what are you talking about Cloud native language of choice for a reason ;)
- IMcD23 5y agoThis should have (2020) in the title.
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- saagarjha 5y agoDiscussion from when it was first written: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22754667 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22754667
- estebank 5y agoI love these kind of anachronistic efforts, like the one in the article or the one getting Rust to run on Win98[1] from around the same time. [1]: https://seri.tools/blog/compiling-rust-for-legacy-windows/ https://seri.tools/blog/compiling-rust-for-legacy-windows/
- rgoulter 5y agoSlack on Windows 3.11 https://github.com/yeokm1/w31slack https://github.com/yeokm1/w31slack C# on Windows 3.11 https://www.hanselman.com/blog/net-everywhere-apparently-also-means-windows-311-and-dos https://www.hanselman.com/blog/net-everywhere-apparently-als...
- anthk 5y agoWith Win 3.1, some IRC client and Bitlbee you can chat everywhere :). Also, a gopher client makes the Win 3.1 desk not-so-obsolete. Ok, let's back to languages. I think some versions of Lazarus/Free Pascal still target Win 3.11 or Windows 9x at least.
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- eek2121 5y agoI was genuinely confused by the April 1st comment until I saw the URL, guys please timestamp your articles.