[squeak-dev] Re: (Slightly OT) Dan Ingalls on FLOSS "Weekly"

Jon Hylands jon at huv.com
Mon May 26 11:03:21 UTC 2008


On Sun, 25 May 2008 09:44:00 -0300, Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org>
wrote:

> BTW, in the interview it was said that the Lisa was a Smalltalk machine. 
> I looked a bit in the web and could find nothing about this. Perhaps 
> this was a mistake, and the Lisa OS and dev tools were Pascal based?

I don't think the Lisa was a "Smalltalk machine" in the pure sense. It
could run Apple Smalltalk, and is in fact the machine I got my first
exposure to Smalltalk on, back in 1987. As I remember, it was basically a
Mac, with a business focus.

Later,
Jon

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