What is Macintosh Programmer's Workshop 2.0?

Imagine the Macintosh without icons. Without dialog boxes. Without the friendly interface we know and love. Imagine a Macintosh with command lines and parameter lists like “link -w -t APPL -c ’????’ Lobo.c.o {CLIBRARIES} Interface.o....” A nightmare? No, it’s the Macintosh Programmer’s Workshop (MPW), a comprehensive and powerful programming environment for the Macintosh, created and used by the programmers at Apple.

MPW is a collection of programming tools that run under the Shell, an environment that bears an uncanny resemblance to UNIX. The Shell provides UNIX-like features such as pipes, by which the output of one program is directly passed to the next program. The many programming tools include an assembler, a linker, a resource editor, a resource compiler and decompiler, debugging tools, performance measurement tools, and a host of other aids.

Takara, Ken (September 1988). What, No Icons? Macworld. (pg. 216).

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Version 2.0.2 from June 1987 includes the following disk images:

• MPW Assembler2.image
• MPW Pascal.image
• MPW1.image
• MPW2.image
• MPW3.image
• MPW Assembler1.image

Version 2.0a3 from March 1987 includes the following disk images:

• MPW A3 Supplement.image
• MPW C V2.0A3.image
• MPW Pascal V2.0A3.image
• MPW1 V2.0A3.image
• MPW2  V2.0A3.image
• MPW3 V2.0A3.image
• MPW4 V2.0A3.image

Download Macintosh Programmer's Workshop 2.0 for Mac

Architecture

Motorola 68K

Compatibility notes

• 1 MB RAM
• Hard disk drive

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Mini vMac