That period didn’t last very long, though — by 1986, the Mac Plus had a megabyte of memory standard, and still a flat address space — no HIMEM required. On the

That period didn’t last very long, though — by 1986, the Mac Plus had a megabyte of memory standard, and still a flat address space — no HIMEM required. On the second point, generally the hardware was reliable, and Mac users had tools available to diagnose software issues. There just wasn’t any printing stuff to a console.