22 Jun
2007
22 Jun
'07
3:44 p.m.
Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
What floored me was how tiny and how little there
really
was on the Mac motherboard, I couldn't believe so much power and
abilities came from so little.
The original Mac doesn't get enough "hacker" credit. A ton of tricks
went into the software that drove that thing. Pretty much everything
was done in software, even the sound generation (which is why you get a
variable answer every time you try to look up how many simultaneous
voices the machine could produce -- it was a single-voice DAC, but
various programs did varying levels of music synthesis or digital
channels through mixing).
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