Chris M wrote:
what were these routines writtenw in originally? (C
presumably I suppose, though one could only wonder why
they werent written in assembly TBW)
Pascal. Most of the Lisa OS and Mac was written in Pascal.
QuickDraw was written by Bill Atkinson. I'm sorry, it was originally
called LisaGraf, and renamed to QuickDraw on the Mac. :-)
Lots of good stuff here:
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Busy_Being…
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Busy_Being…