Didn't Digitalk Methods and Smalltalk/V also use a linear stack? Self did as well and to make that simpler they made using a block from a method that had alread

Didn't Digitalk Methods and Smalltalk/V also use a linear stack? Self did as well and to make that simpler they made using a block from a method that had already returned an error (an optimization that some have regretted). About the NoteTaker being too slow to be usable, having used Squeak on 386 and 486 machines I am hardly shocked. On the other hand people would be being Osborn 1 a few years after the Notaker with just a fraction of the speed (but not trying to run Smalltalk, of course). By the way, quite a bit of information about the NoteTaker on the web is wrong. So I was really glad when Bitsavers got hold of all the original material (mostly memos): http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/xerox/notetaker/ http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/xerox/notetaker/