6 Nov
2006
6 Nov
'06
2:18 p.m.
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Jason McBrien wrote:
In the Apple anniversary edition of this week in tech,
Andy Hertzfeld said
that almost all the original Mac apps were written in pure assembler, as the
compilers for the 68000 weren't that advanced at the time, and they needed
to wring out every last bit of performance from the platform. I'd assume the
same would be true for the Lisa apps.
NO!!!!!!
The slow speed of the Lisa software, DUE TO IT BEING in Pascal, was the
REASON why the Mac aps were re-written in assembly.