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by cy384 1781 days ago
the GUI code for the earliest macs was absolutely a great feat of engineering

by getting my hands dirty with the system, I'm impressed by the way things were designed for the wimpiest processors (and also getting a lot of insight into the flaws of the OS that were exposed as machines became more powerful)

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They really managed to find ways to make it work despite the hardware of the day. There was a lot of hand coded assembly until the mid 90s.
I, and I’m sure a lot of others here, would love to read about that.
I’m aware of folklore.org, thanks. I’ve read it through and through.