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Ok, speculate all day, but...instead, build an example, for older hardware. Allow a 68040 or so, even. That shouldn't be all that hard with modern tools. Let's
by flenserboy 5y ago
Ok, speculate all day, but...instead, build an example, for older hardware. Allow a 68040 or so, even. That shouldn't be all that hard with modern tools. Let's see if it would have been better / useful / good. It could, at worst, point to another direction which could be taken now.
- abecedarius 5y agoFun to imagine an alternate history where https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes shipped with Smalltalk as OS. (I've never tried that hardware and I'm not sure if the first model would really be zippy enough. But it's a machine with plenty of fans, and obviously a better future than the 68000's.)
- boygobbo 5y agoAs someone who did use an Archimedes A440 when it came out (late 1987 I think), it was plenty zippy enough. It's original desktop shell Arthur was written in BBC Basic, so I think it could have handled Smalltalk. There is a port of Squeak for recent versions of RiscOS (http://www.rowledge.org/tim/squeak/ http://www.rowledge.org/tim/squeak/).