Why MacPaint's Original Canvas was 416 Pixels WideBack in the mid 80's after we had finished writing GATO for the Macintosh, I took some time to explore the underbelly of the Mac. One of these times I discovered that a single M68k operation determined the way MacPaint was visually designed. Image courtesy of Jeff Thompson's blog This was the time of the Mac 128k and the "Fat Mac", aka, the 512k Mac. Debugging the Mac meant hitting the Programmer'
