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So was that the one most Mac devs used before Xcode?

Also @Scepticalscribe blood oranges are on my mind too. Just got them from a farmers market event yesterday. View attachment 2486189
Apple didn't have their own IDE. They had a bunch of tools and you would launch what you needed, and quit them to save active memory. It was a cooperative multitasking environment, so you had to be careful. My first Mac had soldered 4 MB of RAM and a slot and I paid over US$1000 for 32 MB.
 
Week off work this week and already bored blue. Not good at being off. No idea what to do, especially as I'm now single and especially in a cold and damp February. Get up, go for a walk, go for coffee, read book, listen to some music, watch TV, drink (too much) wine, bed, repeat. Can't wait to get back to work. God help me when I have 2 weeks off in April!
 
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Wondering if serious news will be able to survive this era...

Just canceled my long-term subscription to The Washington Post after Bezo's announcement today. Sad.

A worry shared across the pond. The break neck speed at which events unfold is quite honeslty dizzying, having to contend with an unreliable press makes the prospect of processing and adapting daunting.

Might I suggest you divert the funds towards The Atlantic, it is part of my "society" reading of the american cultural sphere and did not until now disappoint.
 
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Week off work this week and already bored blue. Not good at being off. No idea what to do, especially as I'm now single and especially in a cold and damp February. Get up, go for a walk, go for coffee, read book, listen to some music, watch TV, drink (too much) wine, bed, repeat. Can't wait to get back to work. God help me when I have 2 weeks off in April!
Why not book time off in the summer?
 
Wondering if serious news will be able to survive this era...

Just canceled my long-term subscription to The Washington Post after Bezo's announcement today. Sad.
So my Dad was telling me a story (UK based) about some piece of news. It literally was not true, completely made up. I had to explain to him that this was fake news (especially from a garbage website he reads). But he fell for it hook line and sinker. I won't go into details as its a UK politics issue, but it is sad that when you right something it gets reported as fact with no need to sense check it.


In other news

New iPhone to come equipped with teleportation device. Samsung will release theirs the following week and tell people it was their idea and spend the next decade suing each other! ;)
 
A worry shared across the pond. The break neck speed at which events unfold is quite honeslty dizzying, having to contend with an unreliable press makes the prospect of processing and adapting daunting.

Might I suggest you divert the funds towards The Atlantic, it is part of my "society" reading of the american cultural sphere and did not until now disappoint.
Thank you, great suggestion... and already a subscriber! I have to say they seem to have only gotten better the last few years too. Nice to know Apple money helps it keep going.

I'm actually thinking of switching funds to The Economist. They seem very level-headed still.
 
Thank you, great suggestion... and already a subscriber! I have to say they seem to have only gotten better the last few years too. Nice to know Apple money helps it keep going.

I'm actually thinking of switching funds to The Economist. They seem very level-headed still.

Delighted to hear that ! I sadly don't read the Economist as often as I use to. The dashboards covering the presidency are interesting but the Financial Times cuts into the allocated "economics" reading.

Do you follow any of the chinese presses ?
 
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In other news

New iPhone to come equipped with teleportation device. Samsung will release theirs the following week and tell people it was their idea and spend the next decade suing each other! ;)
I don't need the iPhone to be a teleporter. I already have a ChromeBook for that.

What I need from the iPhone is toasting. It should toast bread and bagels, and make garlic toast on demand.
 
The Economist. They seem very level-headed still.

Personally, I regard The Economist as tilting conservative while usually doing a good job of avoiding outright partisanship and blatant propoganda.

If you're interested, assuming you are in North America, I find four international broadcasters and two news publishers to be a good antidote to the current style and focus of US news outlets:

(yes, these websites and live streams are in English)

(subscribing to Bloomberg can be expensive)

Plus a tip: many local library systems offer free access to multiple news sources and databases, even on your own devices.
 
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I don't need the iPhone to be a teleporter. I already have a ChromeBook for that.

What I need from the iPhone is toasting. It should toast bread and bagels, and make garlic toast on demand.
I thought a Chromebook was for Spider Solitaire?

Now I’m thinking about toast. I have two pieces of bread a week. Mrs AFB doesn’t eat any. Yet we have a dedicated toaster. Weird.

At work our toaster had a Y2K compliant sticker on it for years. Someone in IT thought it was funny.
 
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Apple didn't have their own IDE. They had a bunch of tools and you would launch what you needed, and quit them to save active memory. It was a cooperative multitasking environment, so you had to be careful. My first Mac had soldered 4 MB of RAM and a slot and I paid over US$1000 for 32 MB.

They did, actually. I remember doing a short course in it some 30+ years ago. It was a bit like a Unix environment, with compilers, editor, make tools and the like. I can't remember for the life of me what it was called, though.

Ah, Google Is Your Friend...
It was called MPW, Macintosh Programmer's Workbench (scroll down to IDEs).
 
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