> For example, there’s no traditional file system. Seems like Collin Donnell, the writer of "The Xerox Smalltalk-80 GUI Was Weird" is just wrong. Yes, Smallta

> For example, there’s no traditional file system. Seems like Collin Donnell, the writer of "The Xerox Smalltalk-80 GUI Was Weird" is just wrong. Yes, Smalltalk-80 provided a way to snapshot and resume — the image. Yes, Smalltalk-80 provided a way to represent the file system — FileDirectory, File, and FilePage (change log, change set, sources). These are not mutually exclusive. Smalltalk-80 provided both. The first screen-grab in "The Xerox Smalltalk-80 GUI Was Weird" shows a "System Workspace" window with some script snippets that seem to do "traditional file system" stuff.