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simula67 on Oct 11, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: “I wrote FAT on an airplane, for heaven's sake”

Possibly stupid question : Why did he not write the assembler himself ?

bluedino on Oct 11, 2013 [–]

I'd guess because of memory limitations. Some more info on those days:

http://www.landsnail.com/apple/local/applewoz.htm

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/JohnSzczepaniak/20130507/1918...

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