I read a blog about semantic web yesterday:
https://github.com/GavinMendelGleason/blog/blob/main/entries/semantic_future.md

Best,
Karl

On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 3:58 AM Tim Johnson <digit at sonic.net> wrote:

>
>
> On 2022-08-11 17:44, tim Rowledge wrote:
> > A long time ago in a galaxy far away, there was a Smalltalk
> > application called... The Analyst.
> >
> > There is a movie intro (I feel like it must have been posted by
> > Yoshiki but can't find any evidence right now) at
> >
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2r8HZ9OGhszUmtoaHg0QklKVDg/view?pref=2&pli=1&resourcekey=0-bAOqlyrlSVKNPeRhugSiSg
> >
> > There is a copy of a working ancient 16bit image - and a load of other
> > useful info, including a 16 bit VM - at
> > https://github.com/devhawala/ST80 Seems like it might make an
> > interesting project to extract the ideas and re-implement.
>
> In line with this... I've been loading all the Smalltalk code from
> Xanadu/Udanax Gold into Squeak since about Feb '21.  Some tests are
> passing.  Maybe I'll present at Argentina '22.  :)
>
> http://udanax.xanadu.com/gold/index.html
>
> "At the time we originally built Udanax Gold, there were no decent
> object platforms for delivering large object-oriented servers. There was
> not even any one workable choice of language! Smalltalk was a great
> development language, but the only decent Smalltalk platform at the time
> -- the one from ParcPlace -- had a fatal runtime license fee. C++ was a
> plausible delivery platform, but had no decent programming environments.
> So we developed in Smalltalk and automatically translated to C++.
>
> There were no available adequate persistent object systems, distributed
> object-message systems, or incremental-generation collectors suitable
> for running a server. All this we built ourselves."
>
> Tim J
>
>
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