Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site ttds.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!enea!ttds!arndt From: arndt@ttds.UUCP (Arndt Jonasson) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Mac architecture responses Message-ID: <1039@ttds.UUCP> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 00:38:45 EST Article-I.D.: ttds.1039 Posted: Thu Oct 24 00:38:45 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 31-Oct-85 07:02:25 EST References: <322@unc.unc.UUCP> Reply-To: arndt@ttds.UUCP (Arndt Jonasson) Distribution: net Organization: The Royal Inst. of Techn., Stockholm Lines: 28 In article <322@unc.unc.UUCP> nelson@unc.UUCP (Alex Nelson) writes: > [long list of suggestions of literature for the Mac OS and the 68000 > processor] Why isn't anybody mentioning "MacIntosh Revealed"? In my opinion, it is THE book for learning how the Mac works. There are two volumes, with 626+516 = 1142 pages. The author is Stephen Carnicoff, who "contributed to the early development of the Lisa computer, and helped write Apple's Inside MacIntosh documentation". Each chapter clearly describes a certain aspect of the toolbox, and gives examples in Lisa Pascal. The end result of the Pascal examples is a complete program, called MiniEdit. Each chapter is followed by a reference section, listing concisely the toolbox calls described in the previous chapter. You still need the Inside MacIntosh if you want to fully control your Mac, but this book goes a long way towards that goal. Some topics are not covered at all, like drivers, sound generation etc. But those are not main concerns to a Mac programmer, who just wants to know how the thing works. If you have any reason at all to read Inside MacIntosh, read this book first. The price is 75$ (approximately), and it is worth it. Arndt Jonasson ZYX Research, Stockholm UUCP: {decvax, philabs}!mcvax!enea!ttds!arndt