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From: jlhaferman@l_eld09.icaen.uiowa.edu (Jeff Haferman)
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Subject: Re: Tell me: what was System 1.0 like?
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Date: 13 May 91 20:13:34 GMT
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From article <1991May10.154919.25794@midway.uchicago.edu>, by jcav@quads.uchicago.edu (john  cavallino):
> In article <75204@brunix.UUCP> man@cs.brown.edu (Mark H. Nodine) writes:
>>In article <1991May10.045757.25862@neon.Stanford.EDU>, torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
>>  6. The Mac came with MacPaint and MacWrite, which at the time were truly 
>>avant garde applications and the envy of all my friends.
> 
> Those two programs blew me away when I first saw them.  When you think
> about the hardware constraints (RAM size mostly) of the original Macintosh,
> you gain new respect for the designers of those programs.  How they were
> able to get them to do so much in so little space I don't know.  Did you
> know that the application memory area (usable RAM) on the original
> Macintosh was less than 90K?  Gleep!
> 

Well, did any of you experience Radio Shacks TRS-80s?  I had a 4K RAM
machine, and used to play chess on it!  How do you write a Chess program
with 4K of available memory?  Of course, it was pretty easy to beat,
but amazing nonetheless.



Jeff Haferman                            internet: jlhaferman@icaen.uiowa.edu
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