[mysterymath]

You're talking about different 80s. On workstations and Unix mainframes, beasts like Smalltalk and Objective C roamed the Earth. On home computers, a resident relocatable driver that wasn't part of ROM was an unusual novelty.

[flomo]

Yeah, 1990s is more accurate. There was a huge market for COM controls and widget libs and a lot of that Obj-C stuff came with a price tag.