by Simon Slavin <slavins.delete.these.four.words@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jan 14, 2008 at 08:35 PM
On 11/01/2008, Walter Bushell wrote in message <proto-
E8666F.19002611012008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>:
> What about that horrid memory management where you had to know like
> before every call wether it moved memory or not????
What about the rules about how many times you were meant to call
'MoreMasters()' ? And how those rules changed over the first five years ?
I remember developing for Mac in the early years. I was already into
Pascal so I didn't have a problem with that. And it was obvious that the
API team were trying to implement a proper virtual memory management
system on a computer with one disk drive -- a floppy disk drive. It
helped to keep two models in your head: "This is what we really want to
do." and "This is what we can do in 256K of memory and booting from a
floppy disk.".
Having said that, the API was stunning. Being able to implement your own
controls, and have Control Manager take your own code as seriously as it
treated its own was wonderful. Bear in mind that the best display API
around at the time was X-11. The Mac API was /fun/.
Simon.
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