4 Aug
2022
4 Aug
'22
11:09 p.m.
On 8/4/22 4:07 PM, Bakul Shah wrote:
From its wikipedia entry:
The initial Macintosh port was done on a Macintosh Plus computer
using the Lightspeed C compiler. It was a hybrid port in that many
of the low-level operations were passed on to QuickDraw instead of
using the internal bitmap code. The application did not conform to
the Macintosh user interface guidelines as it took over the entire
screen. The initial version used either available serial port as the
communications channel. A later update of the port could use either
ethernet or serial communications.
The idea of something doing graphics over a serial port is intriguing to
me. Eliding some form of IP over a dial up connection.
The closest thing that comes to mind is Sixel or ReGIS graphics.
[No reference to how this was obtained]
MGR reference manual (from Stephen A. Uhler's home page):
https://sau.homeip.net/papers/mgrman.pdf
Architecture and Design of the MGR Window System:
https://sau.homeip.net/papers/arch.pdf
Here it says a port to Macintosh-Plus was done in two weeks.
:-)
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