Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!lll-lcc!pyramid!voder!apple!dgold From: dgold@apple.UUCP (David Goldsmith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Macintosh Programmer's Workshop Message-ID: <361@apple.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Dec-86 14:21:15 EST Article-I.D.: apple.361 Posted: Fri Dec 5 14:21:15 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Dec-86 21:32:59 EST References: Reply-To: dgold@apple.UUCP (David Goldsmith) Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, USA Lines: 18 In article rs4u#@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Richard Siegel) writes: >MPW is an Apple product; it's in beta-test right now. >I've never used it, but I hear that it supports Object Pascal (of course! >It's the original implementation), and the compilers are damned slow. Also, >you need more than a meg and a real hard disk if you intend to use more than >one language, if you want to use MacApp, or if you want to do real work... The compilers are not the fastest around, but I wouldn't call them "damn slow". One megabyte works just fine for all the work we do at Apple with MPW, although your RAM cache can't be bigger than about 128K. -- David Goldsmith Apple Computer, Inc. MacApp Group AppleLink: GOLDSMITH1 UUCP: {nsc,dual,sun,voder,ucbvax!mtxinu}!apple!dgold CSNET: dgold@apple.CSNET, dgold%apple@CSNET-RELAY