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In article <752@internal.Apple.COM> lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) writes:
> In article <41a0e08a.a590@mag.engin.umich.edu> billkatt@caen.engin.umich.edu (billkatt) writes:
> >
> >Some of the Mac OS routines were written in Pascal.  The 64K ROM contained the
> >compiled object code for many routines.  Because of time constraints.  But
> 
> I don't think so.  Most of the Lisa libraries were written in Pascal, and
> some of these formed the basis of the Mac ROM routines, but I think to
> squeeze everything into a 64K ROM, they had to go to 100% assembler.
> 
> 		 Larry Rosenstein,  Object Specialist

I beg to differ, but NOSYing around in the actual ROM code of my SE
reveals dead code (not a lot of it, of course)---the sign of either
a compiler at work or (I doubt it) incredibly lax quality control.
Even in Quickdraw you can see compiler artifacts--check out MapPt's
source sometime ... about 20% of it's dead weight.

If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. No big deal.

-Nick

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