From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On 28 Feb 2025 09:49:01 GMT, Stefan Ram wrote:   
      
   > Mike Spencer  wrote or quoted:   
   >>   
   >> Me: So, how do you program it?   
   >   
   > IIRC at one point in time around 1981, the answer was:   
   > You buy a Lisa.   
      
   The original 128K Mac was simply too resource-starved to self-host any   
   useful development environment.   
      
   Except ... Forth. I think there was a Forth-based product called “Neon”   
   that actually let you write programs on a 128K Mac, to run on a 128K Mac.   
      
   The more expensive 512K Mac (not that the 128K Mac was cheap) opened a few   
   more opportunities for self-hosted development. “What will we do with all   
   that memory?” people asked. Andy Herzfeld answered: “Why not multitask   
   more than one program at once? Behold, I give you ... Switcher!”   
      
   Then the Mac Plus in 1986 launched a whole new era. Suddenly the Macintosh   
   wasn’t a toy any more.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)