historical note (was: New Block Closures)
Jecel Assumpcao Jr
jecel at merlintec.com
Thu Jun 21 21:07:05 UTC 2001
On Thursday 21 June 2001 15:22, Dan Ingalls wrote:
> I did this in the NoteTaker Smalltalk implementation (1978) for an
> 8086 that ran at 8 (count 'em) MHz. The ref is page 19 of the "green
> book" where the figure of 6 (count 'em) k bytes for the kernel
> interpreter also appears.
Too bad "normal people" only got to try Smalltalk when Digitalk
released their Methods product seven years later (1985). I got to use
it on a 4.77 MHz 8088 machine (the PC), though I had a hard time
finding one with a full 512KB of RAM...
Looking at how far Squeak has come in seven years, I can't help
thinking of the quote:
"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are
these: It might have been!" - John Greenleaf Whittier
-- Jecel
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