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Another weirdness was that for the first couple of years of the Mac's existence you had to have a Lisa if you wanted to write code for it. The Mac had so little
by dreamcompiler 1y ago
Another weirdness was that for the first couple of years of the Mac's existence you had to have a Lisa if you wanted to write code for it. The Mac had so little RAM that it couldn't run a Pascal compiler. For this reason, when I bought a Mac in 1984 I also bought a Lisa with a huge 5MB (!) hard drive.
You bring up a great point though: Whatever happened to LisaOS? Did anybody archive the source anywhere or did it completely vanish?
- fsflyer 1y agohttps://info.computerhistory.org/apple-lisa-code https://info.computerhistory.org/apple-lisa-code https://github.com/azumanga/apple-lisa https://github.com/azumanga/apple-lisa
- cmrdporcupine 1y agoJust two years ago Apple released it under a very strict non-commercial use "be careful how you look at this" license, to the CHM: https://computerhistory.org/press-releases/chm-makes-apple-lisa-source-code-available-to-the-public-as-a-part-of-its-art-of-code-series/ https://computerhistory.org/press-releases/chm-makes-apple-l... I briefly looked at it, it's a pile of Object Pascal and M68k asssembly. I haven't looked to see if anybody has managed to make it compile in any kind of available-today compiler yet.