Daily Archives: 2025-04-04

Investigating MacPaint’s Source Code

Source: Hacker News

Article note: Nice piece of archeology. Early Mac software composed from Pascal and 68k asm is always interesting to look at, the context and analysis is interesting, well reasoned, and well referenced (and meshes with other things I know from the era, like the degree to which QuickDraw is the magic that made the Mac).
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An interactive-speed Linux computer made of only 3 8-pin chips

Source: Hacker News

Article note: Dimitri has a habit of this kind of stunt, but this latest one is truly absurd.
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