"Just like Steve Jobs did with his display back in 1984 (at least according to LEM)"
Yeah, there isn't enough room in 128K for MacSpeak to say something as long as Mac's first speech. Steve would have had to cut a lot. I well believe he had a Fat Mac. Andy Hertzfeld confirmed the story. Have you ever tried to scroll a picture in MacPaint in 128K and had to swap floppies a couple of times? There's not enough RAM to hold the whole ImageWriter-size page, so it has to be swapped to disk, and virtual memory on floppies is SLOW! A 512K Fat Mac can run MacPaint as Bill Atkinson intended. Still, I remember being impressed that VM was baked into the operating system, even if it was really crude. It was way beyond the 8-bit Apple II and CP/M systems of 1984.
Yeah, there isn't enough room in 128K for MacSpeak to say something as long as Mac's first speech. Steve would have had to cut a lot. I well believe he had a Fat Mac. Andy Hertzfeld confirmed the story. Have you ever tried to scroll a picture in MacPaint in 128K and had to swap floppies a couple of times? There's not enough RAM to hold the whole ImageWriter-size page, so it has to be swapped to disk, and virtual memory on floppies is SLOW! A 512K Fat Mac can run MacPaint as Bill Atkinson intended. Still, I remember being impressed that VM was baked into the operating system, even if it was really crude. It was way beyond the 8-bit Apple II and CP/M systems of 1984.