22 Jul
2010
22 Jul
'10
9:18 p.m.
Robert Borsuk wrote:
I had been thinking about this. I was thinking that
MPW was a 68020 and greater tool and that the original compiler came from Motorola or
somebody big like that. Any thoughts? Has anyone just asked Bill Atkinson?
It's possible that late releases of MPW might have needed a 68020, but
for a long time it didn't.
AFAICT, Bill Atkinson didn't have anything to do with compilers for MPW,
nor did he use those for developing MacPaint, since they didn't exist
yet. He did all the development on the Lisa. Even after the Mac was
released, for a while there was no good development environment that ran
natively.
Eric