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From: edmoy@ucbopal.CC.Berkeley.ARPA
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Subject: Re: opinion of "Inside Macintosh"
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Date: Thu, 14-Mar-85 14:39:30 EST
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Inside Macintosh is the bible for Macintosh development; I know no other
source of as detailed information on the internal working.  This is not
to say that it is a great thing as it is rather confusing and even misleading
in spots.  Expect to go through it the first time and not understand half
of what they are talking about.  On second and subsequent reading of
various sections, things do begin to fall into place.  There still are a
lot of holes in the information, and hopefully the final version of
Inside Macintosh will have covered most of them up.

You will have to know a little Pascal to really understand how to make
the toolbox calls.  If and when you get into the real deep-down development,
knowing the Pascal calling sequence and even some assembly language would
be helpful.  The most difficult thing about development is debugging.  If
you use the debuggers from the software suppliment, you will definitely
have to know 68000 assembly language.  Having used dbx (C source level
debugger) on 4.2bsd, it is hard to go back to an assembly language debugger!

Edward Moy
Computing Services
University of California
Berkeley, CA  94720

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