ST-80 Version 2 is 20 years old tomorrow

Vassili Bykov vassili at parcplace.com
Fri May 30 17:55:48 UTC 2003


At 10:41 AM 5/30/2003 -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> >>>>> "Vassili" == Vassili Bykov <vassili at parcplace.com> writes:
>
>Vassili> As you can see in the screenshot at
>Vassili> http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/VisualWorks/Smalltalk-80+in+a+box
>
>Vassili> the image that world came to know as the Smalltalk-80 (a.k.a. 
>Smalltalk-
>Vassili> 80 Version 2), was saved on May 31, 1083 at 10:37:52 am Pacific Time.
>
>If it was 1083, wouldn't that make it 920 years old?

It sure can feel like that if you think of all that happened since... :)


>And talk about your *portable* image!  It must've run on the Gutenberg
>Printing Press originally. :)

Yep, though garbage collection must have been a real chore...


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