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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