A practical, distributed environment for Macintosh software development

  • Authors:

  • Mark Sherman;Ann Marks;Rob Collins;Heather Anderson;Jerry Godes;Denis Devlin;Leonid Spector;Vivian Sewelson

  • Affiliations:

  • Information Technology Center, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA and Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH;Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH;Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH;Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH;Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH;Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH;Department of Psychology, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA;Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 1986 ACM SIGSMALL/PC symposium on Small systems
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

We describe a development environment we created for prototyping software for the Macintosh. The programs are developed and executed on a large time-shared computer but can use the full facilities of the Macintosh. By using this system, we combine the advantages of the large system, such as large amounts of disk storage and automatic file backups, with the advantages of the Macintosh, such as advanced graphics, mouse control and sound synthesis. We also describe several projects that used the distributed development system. We conclude with a description of our future plans for this environment.