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"20 years later" -- nobody was running IBM 705 in 1980 for Lisp or Smalltalk. The 7601 was backed by hard disk as well. These machines used quite a bit of pag
by amszmidt 2y ago
"20 years later" -- nobody was running IBM 705 in 1980 for Lisp or Smalltalk. The 7601 was backed by hard disk as well. These machines used quite a bit of paging.
You are purposefully confusing multiple decades of computing. Smalltalk was much later, and required quite large machines, so did Lisp when it became popular on machines like the PDP-10 and ITS which had much more memory, just running Macsyma was a PITA.
- anthk 2y agoMacsyma on the Simh emulator, Ka10, appears to do it fine under ITS.
- pjmlp 2y agoWe were Lisp on CP/M, ever heard of it? Also now we are getting MMU and page loading into the argument?
- anthk 2y agoCould Macsyma be run on CP/M on an Altair?
- pjmlp 2y agoThere were other Z80 computers able to run Lisp and CP/M. Here he goes again with another application I didn't mention at all.
- amszmidt 2y agoAnd CP/M wasn’t running the first versions of Lisp or Smalltalk. Your claim that Lisp and Smalltalk didn’t have the luxury of 80k when they got invented, when intact they did. Much of the programs that ranusing Lisp specifically was VERY memory hungry. Now your just arguing for the sake of arguing and just being antagonizing. Have fun.