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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