Access vs. Media

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Thu Nov 1 21:26:06 UTC 2001


Larry Tesler and an intern did TinyTalk. (It was a little too 
Forth-like for my taste)

Cheers,

Alan

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At 11:39 AM -0800 11/1/01, Les Tyrrell wrote:
>  > > > >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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