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Steve Zellers writes about old Mac debuggers. It was pretty funny when I went to WWDC, you could spot Jasik running on someone's PowerBook from a mile around. The one piece of software I remember being amazed at someone using Jasik on was Lotus Notes.

I never used TMON, I was happy with source-level debugging (LightsBug ruled!) at that point. But I remember reading at some point about some people who worked on TMON… made an interesting story, but I have now forgotten.

And now we have gdb. I'm not sure this is an improvement. Quinn's “GDB for MacsBug users” was a pretty good read, though. I love the way people at Apple's shell prompts give away who wrote the documentation.

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