To get another taste of the kinds of systems possible in the 70s, in spite of the constraints, see Kay's demo of a revived Smalltalk-78 system: https://youtu.be

To get another taste of the kinds of systems possible in the 70s, in spite of the constraints, see Kay's demo of a revived Smalltalk-78 system: https://youtu.be/AnrlSqtpOkw?t=3m3s https://youtu.be/AnrlSqtpOkw?t=3m3s (I believe this system is about 10-20K LOC software in total) Notes about the the revival are here: https://freudenbergs.de/bert/publications/Ingalls-2014-Smalltalk78.pdf https://freudenbergs.de/bert/publications/Ingalls-2014-Small...