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Re:Forth: Stack-Manipulation Operators by protomyth on Friday May 14, 2021 @02:59PM (#27158364)
Because of the original 128K Mac's limited memory, FORTH was one of the first actually useful language you could host on it.
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Re:Forth: Stack-Manipulation Operators by PaulHoule on Saturday May 15, 2021 @06:35PM (#27169614)
The 128K Mac had a lot more memory than most other computers in 1984, but it was not a lot of room to fit a GUI in.

Oddly, within a few years people had shoehorned GUIs into much smaller machines, such as

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system)

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Re:Forth: Stack-Manipulation Operators by protomyth on Saturday May 22, 2021 @11:12AM (#27247282)
The 128K Mac had a lot more memory than most other computers in 1984

They very issue where Byte shows the Macintosh had a lot of computer ads with PC's starting at 128K and being expandable to 512K or 640K. The Macintosh was under specified in memory compared to non-GUI PCs of its era.

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