19 Dec
2019
19 Dec
'19
9:47 a.m.
Norman wrote:
The V8 tape was made in late 1984 (I know that for
sure
because I helped make it). It is unlikely to have anything
for the MC68000 Blit, only stuff for the Mac-32 Jerq.
The V8 tape has the Blit stuff in /usr/blit, and the 5620 stuff
in /usr/jerq. The Blit stuff looks somewhat older, and doesn't
have exactly the same graphics library functions as the 5620.
It would be interesting to see a chronology of the evolution of
these window systems.
Rob wrote:
If 5620s were called Jerqs, it was an accident. All
the software with that
name would be for the original, Locanthi-built and -designed 68K machines.
That's amusing, considering that the 5620 stuff was in /usr/jerq on
Research systems! Apparently the accident became institutionalized.
Mike