Access vs. Media
Les Tyrrell
tyrrell at canis.uiuc.edu
Thu Nov 1 19:39:55 UTC 2001
> > > >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?
Already been done- it was called TinyTalk.
Very little information on it, though. ( Actually, it was a port to CP/M, with
64kb of RAM ).
- les
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