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by commandersaki 388 days ago
I tried to watch the first bit of the video, but I'm still trying to figure what exactly did it change?
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timonoko 388 days ago
There was no internet, so unless you were connected to educational organization and their curriculum, there was no way to get information of various topics in somewhat palatable way. BYTE changed all that, and suddenly everybody could learn all about Prolog and Smalltalk and other Scheiße.
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commandersaki 387 days ago
Ah okay, yeah fair enough. I thought the guy was talking about the specific magazine issue of Smalltalk.
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jecel 386 days ago
He was: he pointed out that the world of computing he (we) knew back then is illustrated in all the ads. Note that August 1981 is also the month the original IBM PC came out. In contrast the articles showed a world of computing with mice, overlapping windows, menus, cut/copy/paste.

A comment in the video pointed out that the mouse had been invented back in 1964 and claiming it was not common is a cop out. The author of the video didn't know about it before this issue and I didn't know about it. But now we knew, and for how many others was this true?

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igouy 387 days ago
"Scheiße"
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timonoko 387 days ago
Bad memories of Smalltalk. Current implementation did not scale up.
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igouy 387 days ago
Good memories of Smalltalk. (Was it Smalltalk or was it me?)

> Current implementation did not scale up.

Did the prototype suggest it would?

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timonoko 386 days ago
I was not in that project, but I heard it just suddenly choked up, just when the model was becoming useful.

There was no mention in the box that there was a limit. It was the fancy version with EMS-support, so it was not a hardware problem.

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igouy 386 days ago
Not your memories of Smalltalk.
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