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> You're talking to someone who implemented a Smalltalk 80 VM. Do you mean yourself or do you mean thelazydogsback ? > …compared to other systems. Depends wh
by igouy 7y ago
> You're talking to someone who implemented a Smalltalk 80 VM.
Do you mean yourself or do you mean thelazydogsback ?
> …compared to other systems.
Depends which other systems were actually available where you were working.
*> So 14 years of Moore's law later…"
Wasn't the problem insufficient installed memory?
- monocasa 7y ago>Do you mean yourself or do you mean thelazydogsback ? Myself. >Depends which other systems were actually available where you were working. Diff is from the 70s and by the time Smalltalk existed had been ported to everything under the sun. Having done both I really prefer making text files the canonical copy. >Wasn't the problem insufficient installed memory? For the most part. That's sort of my point, more than a meg was crazy town, and systems went to crazy lengths to accommodate that. Moore's Law applies to memory, there's a transistor on each DRAM bit (and technically a capacitor, but DRAM these days relies on the parasitic capacitance of the transistor, so these days DRAM is just a sea of transistoslrs for the most part).
- igouy 7y ago> Myself. (Genuine question) As "someone who implemented a Smalltalk 80 VM" how much of that effort involved code management in Smalltalk? > Having done both I really prefer making text files the canonical copy. Change sets are saved as text files, the change log is a text file, sources is a text file …?