Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!fernwood!oracle!news From: gstein@oracle.com (Greg Stein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: The programming CULT Message-ID: Date: 15 Aug 90 03:07:29 GMT References: <90206.152308GROSSPA@QUCDN.BITNET> <3726@husc6.harvard.edu> <12168@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <302@saxony.pa.reuter.COM> <11170@claris.com> Sender: news@oracle.com Organization: Oracle Corporation, Belmont, CA Lines: 29 In article <11170@claris.com> brendan@claris.com (Brendan McCarthy) writes: > In article <1990Aug6.220548.22689@dhw68k.cts.com> finnegan@dhw68k.cts.com > > In article <3726@husc6.harvard.edu> siegel@endor.UUCP (Rich Siegel) writes: > > > I started writing Mac code using Macintosh Pascal on a 512K > > > machine with two 400K floppy drives. Little did I know that I'd grow > > > up to do a version of Macintosh Pascal, and use a Mac II to do it... > > Boy, you had it easy! [In old croney accent] I remember when all I had > > was a 128K Mac running MacTerminal hooked up to a UNIX box at 300 baud > > and using SUMEX C :-) > > Yup! [Other crony scratches a graying, stubbled chin.] 'Member the Inside Mac > Phonebook Edition? hmph. [another crony here] heck, I worked on a Lisa and sent my files to the 128K thru the serial port to a capture program. Sumex wasn't even heard of, let alone MacTerminal. Inside Mac? I worked from the 3-ring binder set and was *happy* when the Phonebook edition finally was printed... I wrote Rascal (remember that anyone?) to run in a measly 128K machine. Heck, the system takes more than that now! Those were the days. -- Greg Stein -- This posting bears no relation to my employer Arpa: gstein%oracle.uucp@apple.com UUCP: ..!{uunet,apple}!oracle!gstein