Some fantastic systems (like Butler Lampson's and Peter Deutsch's GENIE OS) were programmed completely on Model 33 Teletypes (at 10 characters a second = 300 baud).
But isn't the real point far from what highly motivated hackers and scientists can do when they are burning to do? What we are really interested in is: what is required for those who are not "burning to do" to get interested and invested in the new literacy?
Cheers,
Alan
At 11:15 AM -0800 11/1/01, Tim Rowledge wrote:
Chris Reuter cgreuter@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca is widely believed to have written:
make that a Sinclair ZX81 with 1 kB RAM, which did not allow you to use every character on your 24x32 display P-)
Which reminds me--when are we porting Squeak to it?
Ouch. Mind you, Chris Macie did a pretty decent Smalltalk for an Apple II with a 128k expansion memory ( I think he might have made it himself) many, many years ago.
tim
-- Tim Rowledge, tim@sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim Useful random insult:- Life by Norman Rockwell, but screenplay by Stephen King.