A Review of the 128KB Macintosh

Posted by Zonk on Thursday June 30, 2005 @01:48AM from the retro-love dept.

bfwebster writes "The physicist John Wheeler famously quipped that 'Time is nature's way to keep everything from happening at once.' The web flattens time by making more of the past accessible. Here, then, is a reprint of BYTE's official review of the original 128KB Macintosh from the August 1984 issue. The article highlights the radical break with other PCs that the Mac represented, while at the same time giving the first real warning of Steve Jobs's least-productive tendency: pre-emptive and often arbitrary constraint of end-user options (e.g., no memory expansion on the 128KB or announced 512KB Macs, even though the 68000 processor had a lovely, flat 16MB address space, as opposed to Intel's 808x segmented hell)."

3 of 476 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

in 1984 by udderly · 2005-06-30 01:55 · Score: 0, Redundant

Well, at least in 1984, they didn't have to worry about being /.ed. Coral anyone?
1. Re:in 1984 by alexhs · 2005-06-30 01:57 · Score: 1, Redundant
  
  Coral not, but mirrordot
  
  --
  I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of killer sig, which this margin is too narrow to contain.
Re:Upper limit was actually 4 megs, not 16 by weave · 2005-06-30 02:23 · Score: 1, Redundant

Looks like the 68000 only had a 24-bit address bus.