Access vs. Media
Alan Kay
Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Thu Nov 1 21:14:03 UTC 2001
Some fantastic systems (like Butler Lampson's and Peter Deutsch's
GENIE OS) were programmed completely on Model 33 Teletypes (at 10
characters a second = 300 baud).
But isn't the real point far from what highly motivated hackers and
scientists can do when they are burning to do? What we are really
interested in is: what is required for those who are not "burning to
do" to get interested and invested in the new literacy?
Cheers,
Alan
At 11:15 AM -0800 11/1/01, Tim Rowledge wrote:
>Chris Reuter <cgreuter at calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> is widely believed
>to have written:
>
>
>> > 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?
>>
>Ouch. Mind you, Chris Macie did a pretty decent Smalltalk for an Apple
>II with a 128k expansion memory ( I think he might have made it himself)
>many, many years ago.
>
>tim
>
>--
>Tim Rowledge, tim at sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim
>Useful random insult:- Life by Norman Rockwell, but screenplay by
>Stephen King.
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