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Comment by boomlinde | original | How did Woz write the Apple 1 BASIC before building the computer?
[−]boomlinde · 2026-11-15 Sun 10:50 UTC · link
> The only thing that is strange in the Woz story is that you would usually start by creating a dirt-poor monitor/assembler so that you would have a sane environment to do further development in.

He wrote a monitor as well, but the premise here is that he wrote the BASIC interpreter before there was a computer at all, so a monitor wouldn't have helped.