Access vs. Media

Chris Reuter cgreuter at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Thu Nov 1 17:41:09 UTC 2001


On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 08:29:30PM +0100, Stefan Schmiedl wrote:
> Swan, Dean (2001-10-30 13:29):
> 
> > John,
> > 
> > >A 320x240 screen is just too small for 
> > >programming, in Squeak or any other
> > >language. Programming is hard enough
> > >even when you have enough screen real
> > >estate...
> > 
> >     Forgive me, but I just can not let
> > this go un-rebuked.  Many of us started
> > our programming careers on machines like
> > the venerable Apple II, which only had
> > a 280x192 screen and a fixed pitch 40
> > by 24 text mode.
> 
> 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?



             --Chris







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