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The Smalltalk-72 emulator is particularly fascinating. Both to be seeing what they had accomplished 48 years ago, and to think that they've got a decent emulati
by mumblemumble 6y ago
The Smalltalk-72 emulator is particularly fascinating. Both to be seeing what they had accomplished 48 years ago, and to think that they've got a decent emulation of it running in the browser.
Haven't actually made it very far in, just due to learning curve. So many UI conventions that we take for granted nowadays but that didn't exist at the dawn of the GUI. Typing \ rather than pressing the return key to evaluate expressions on the REPL, for example.
- DanielIngalls 6y agoYes, that's certainly confusing. I'd like to be able to offer a popup keyboard that makes it all clear. The Alto had line-feed at the top-right, and we used LF for our do-it character. "\" is in the upper-right and not otherwise used in St-72 so i chose it. I'll work on some better visible support. Thanks!