NeXT vs. Sun (1991) [video]

Re:NeXT vs. Sun (1991) [video] by acqq on Sunday August 21, 2016 @06:56PM (#12333108)

It wasn't ironic, at these "earlier" times it was common to use significantly stronger computers to develop for the "smaller targets": in 1975 Altair Basic, the first product of (then called) Micro-Soft, which had to run on the 8080 computer with only 4 kilobytes of memory was developed on the PDP-10 computer owned by Harvard University:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_BASIC

Paul Allen wrote an emulator for the microprocessor which run on PDP-10. He was able to extend his previous version of emulator for that.

At the time Microsoft developed MS-DOS (actually modifying the program they have bought), around 1981, they owned their own DECSYSTEM-2060:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECSYSTEM-20

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Re:NeXT vs. Sun (1991) [video] by csl on Sunday August 21, 2016 @07:06PM (#12333145)

Also, the original Lucasfilm Commodore 64 games, such as Maniac Mansion, were cross-compiled on UNIX workstations, transferred over the network and uploaded to running C64s — way back in 1987! (Source: The Thimbleweed Park podcasts [0], which I highly recommend.)

[0]: https://blog.thimbleweedpark.com

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Re:NeXT vs. Sun (1991) [video] by acqq on Sunday August 21, 2016 @07:18PM (#12333192)

Three years earlier, the development for the 1984 game "Match Point" for ZX Spectrum (the graphics in the video is original, the sound is fake by the youtube video producer):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRO_nY-d94w&t=22s

was done by then-just-software company named Psion on their VAX computer:

https://archive.org/stream/sinclair-user-magazine-036/Sincla...

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Re:NeXT vs. Sun (1991) [video] by tarsinge on Monday August 22, 2016 @07:33AM (#12335519)

And for developing on the early Macintosh you had to have a Lisa Workstation[1]

[1] http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=3rd_Party_Develop...

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