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No, not at all, the folklore story doesn't even address Apple's strategy. Their developer relations were "Apply Here" back then. Macintosh shipped with zero dev
by flomo 3y ago
No, not at all, the folklore story doesn't even address Apple's strategy. Their developer relations were "Apply Here" back then. Macintosh shipped with zero developer tooling, not C/C++, not Pascal, not BASIC.
And, we have no idea what Donn's BASIC was actually like ... it probably wasn't "Visual Basic", or even a platform. Just better than Microsoft's halfazz port of their micro basic. (which did have some quickdraw commands.)
- GeekyBear 3y ago> we have no idea what Donn's BASIC was actually like We literally know exactly what it was like. Dartmouth was already using a late beta of the software for a Basic class when Microsoft forced Apple to cancel the release of the final version.
- mainland 3y agoIf you'd like to see what Donn's BASIC was like, you can! The Internet Archive has a version that runs in-browser [1]. Although the Folklore article says there were two books describing Donn's BASIC, I believe there were at least three: Introduction to Macintosh BASIC, Using Macintosh BASIC, and The Macintosh BASIC Handbook. All three are available at vintageapple.org [2]. [1] https://archive.org/details/mac_MacBASIC.335 https://archive.org/details/mac_MacBASIC.335 [2] https://vintageapple.org/macprogramming/ https://vintageapple.org/macprogramming/
- flomo 3y agoThanks! I had no idea it was out there. (Although it looks like it's not very 'visual'.)