Kay is greatly exaggerating those figures, and tends to blame problems with the modern software stack on the hardware. Dan Ingalls gave a talk in 2005 about th

Kay is greatly exaggerating those figures, and tends to blame problems with the modern software stack on the hardware. Dan Ingalls gave a talk in 2005 about the history of Smalltalk implementations in which he mentioned the Xerox NoteTaker. The NoteTaker was a PC powered by the 8086, and according to Ingalls executed Smalltalk VM bytecode at twice the speed of the Alto. Here is the link to the talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pACoq7r6KVI#t=42m50s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pACoq7r6KVI#t=42m50s and here is my analysis with more details on the specs and economics of the NoteTaker: http://carcaddar.blogspot.com/2012/01/personal-computer-youve-never-heard-of.html http://carcaddar.blogspot.com/2012/01/personal-computer-youv...