18 May
2016
18 May
'16
11:44 a.m.
On Wed, 18 May 2016, John Willis wrote:
Let's not forget that the bulk of the Apple Lisa
operating system and
at least large parts of the original Macintosh system software were also
implemented in Pascal (though IIRC hand-translated into 68k assembly
language), which was a pretty big mainstream success for proving
Pascal as suitable for developing systems software.
At the time, it was sometimes interpreted differently:
"Apple hired brilliant people for the project. BUT, they had so little
real-world experience that they didn't even realize what a mistake it
would be to write an OS in a high level language. Apple had to rewrite it
in assembly for the Mac, to make it fast enough to be usable. Is Steve
Jobs color blind? He keeps trying to make machines with very high
resolution, but balck and white, and keeps trying to seal them off from
the rest of the world." (- cHead)