From: Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: The MGR window system and the Macintosh
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 17:09:32 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <65dd4b96-d08d-610e-5fa7-d228f093b78d@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <566D98A2-B976-44A9-BD53-F10ECC7E24BC@iitbombay.org>
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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.
:-)
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-04 23:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-04 19:45 [TUHS] " John Floren
2022-08-04 20:18 ` [TUHS] " Al Kossow
2022-08-04 20:29 ` Al Kossow
2022-08-04 23:07 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2022-08-04 23:16 ` Richard Salz
2022-08-04 23:21 ` Bakul Shah
2022-08-04 23:42 ` Al Kossow
2022-08-04 23:51 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2022-08-04 23:58 ` Larry McVoy
2022-08-05 4:26 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2022-08-04 23:56 ` Larry McVoy
2022-09-16 22:51 ` Michael Parson
2022-09-16 23:00 ` Henry Bent
2022-08-04 21:14 ` Dan Cross
2022-08-04 22:07 ` Bakul Shah
2022-08-04 23:09 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS [this message]
2022-08-05 0:37 ` Andrew Newman
2022-08-05 2:14 ` Al Kossow
2022-08-05 13:33 ` Clem Cole
2022-08-09 1:46 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-08-09 1:50 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-08-05 8:38 ` arnold
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