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Fun to imagine an alternate history where https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes shipped with Smalltalk a
by abecedarius 5y ago
Fun 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/).