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		paulitex on Aug 26, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The story of round rectangles I don't know what I was expecting (C I guess), but upon opening the project it blew me away that it was written entirely in assembly by hand.

wrs on Aug 27, 2010 [–]

The original Mac had a 64K ROM. It's unbelievable what they packed in there. They used a lot of tricks to do it that are only possible in assembly.

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