{"id":50,"date":"2008-11-18T01:10:58","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T09:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=50"},"modified":"2008-11-18T01:10:58","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T09:10:58","slug":"inside-macintosh-volumes-i-ii-iii-pdf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Inside Macintosh Volumes I, II, III (PDF)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are all three volumes of the original 1985 edition of <b>Inside Macintosh<\/b> as a searchable PDF:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weihenstephan.org\/~michaste\/pagetable\/mac\/Inside_Macintosh.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.weihenstephan.org\/~michaste\/pagetable\/mac\/Inside_Macintosh.png\" border=\"2\"><br \/>Inside Macintosh Volumes I, II, III<br \/><\/a>(1284 pages, 18 MB)<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><i>Inside Macintosh<\/i> consists of three volumes. Volume I begins with the following information of general interest:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a &#8220;road map&#8221; to the software and the rest of the documentation<\/li>\n<li>the user interface guidelines<\/li>\n<li>an introduction to memory management (the least you need to know, with a complete discussion following in Volume II)<\/li>\n<li>some general information for assembly-language programmers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It then describes the various parts of the <b>User Interface Toolbox<\/b>, the software in ROM that helps you implement the standard Macintosh user interface in your application. This is followed by descriptions of other, RAM-based software that&#8217;s similar in function to the User Interface Toolbox. (The software overview in the Road Map chapter gives further details.)<\/p>\n<p>Volume II describes the <b>Operating System<\/b>, the software in ROM that does basic tasks such as input and output, memory management, and interrupt handling. As in Volume I, some functionally similar RAM-based software is then described.<\/p>\n<p>Volume III discusses your program&#8217;s interface with the Finder and then describes the Macintosh 128K and 512K hardware. A comprehensive summary of all the software is provided, followed by some useful appendices and a glossary of all terms defined in Inside Macintosh.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I have been told that there are several people in Apple&#8217;s operating system kernel team today that are younger than the original Macintosh, therefore I see this as act of preserving retrocomputing documents; the times when someone cared about the copyright of this must have long been gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are all three volumes of the original 1985 edition of Inside Macintosh as a searchable PDF: Inside Macintosh Volumes I, II, III(1284 pages, 18 MB) Inside Macintosh consists of three volumes. Volume I begins with the following information of general interest: a &#8220;road map&#8221; to the software and the rest of the documentation the &#8230; <a title=\"Inside Macintosh Volumes I, II, III (PDF)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=50\" aria-label=\"Read more about Inside Macintosh Volumes I, II, III (PDF)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,20,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-archeology","category-literature","category-operating-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}