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RE: [OT] Best Mac for Development?
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RE: [OT] Best Mac for Development?

  • Subject: RE: [OT] Best Mac for Development?
  • From: Tony Scaminaci <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 11:55:10 -0700
I'm laughing at these old days comments. I started with a 128K Mac in 85, moved to the Quadra 950, a bunch of hacked StarMac clones, then a PowerMac G4 (1999), and finally on to a variety of mini macs and laptops. I started developing on the Quadra with CodeWarrior and later the G4. I was forced to switch to Xcode when CW went under. It's been a painful 30 years, especially changing all my programs from Pascal to C. Go ahead and play the little violins lol.

The worst part? I have an app written from 88 thru 94 that still compiled and ran correctly until Carbon was deprecated. I ported it to Windows and Unix as a command- line app that also compiled and ran fine until Xcode 6.x. It still compiles under 6.4 but core dumps during execution. Pretty hard to troubleshoot when there are no compiler warnings. Play that fiddle again, software development is a pain and seems to be getting more complicated with each new release of Xcode.


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On Sep 11, 2015, 5:15:14 AM, Dallman, John wrote:
> Bah! You had it good. I started on a Mac 128KB in June 1984.

Luxury! In 1984, I was programming on a CAD system that ran on 64KB Apple ][ machines. We did have an assembler, because that ecosystem had been developing for a few years, but the whole 
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