Mac Plus beats AMD Dual Core PC

ebykm said:
We salute the geniuse of Jeff Raskin whose super code made everything to fit on a floppy and leave a reasonable amount of memory for applications, till our developers start shipping OS es and apps based on smaller, efficient, faster code, that upgrading your OS/apps makes your computer faster. Amen.
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Um, actually, Jef Raskin is not a coder. He's a designer, and Jobs pushed him out of the Macintosh project long before he could get his ideas implemented.

The real genius coder was Bill Atkinson. He wrote a lot of the GUI code, that was both fast and burned onto the ROMs. That significantly reduced the amount of code that needed to be loaded from disk into RAM, and made it easier to convince developers to use a consistent user interface.
 
Thanks, I knew something was mixed up, but didn't know when posted. :)

Anyway, Mac toolbox and other stuffs were ahead of the time.
 
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