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by jdougan 7mo ago
There was a browser that worked on Squeak 3, Whisker, that had some of these attributes. I used it up until it became unsupported. It took a little getting used to as its primary orientation was horizontal, but in the age of widescreen moni
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by jdougan 7mo ago
Time flies like a banana.
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by jdougan 8mo ago
Close enough. I had a copy of MacOS Apple Smalltalk from the 1985 training course I took, and had started a job using Objectworks. Squeak 1.0 is quite close to ST-80.
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by jdougan 8mo ago
Every so often I fire up an old Squeak Smalltalk image, put it in full screen mode, and pretend that much of the intervening years never happened.
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by jdougan 9mo ago
> what's a cubit? What's an ark?
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by jdougan 9mo ago
Yup. He is, by all accounts, a great supply-chain guy. eg. As far as I can tell, there were no significant breaks in Apple's supplies during COVID. But he clearly falls afoul of Steve Jobs'warning about leaders with no taste.
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by jdougan 9mo ago
Have you looked at the Apple Newton memory architecture? http://waltersmith.us/newton/HICSS-92.pdf
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by jdougan 10mo ago
In Eclipse Phase: > The acronym TITAN stands for Total Information Tactical Awareness Network. These were a group of highly advanced, self-improving seed Artificial Intelligences (AIs) that are responsible for the catastrophic event know
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by jdougan 10mo ago
Emacs is a (virtual) Lisp Machine
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by jdougan 10mo ago
The latter 2 usages are pretty much the same. They just have different virtual instruction sets.
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by jdougan 10mo ago
Wow, just what I wanted for Christmas. Back in the day I found VisiOn's approach fascinating since almost everything at the time was either more tightly integrated or completely unintegrated. Maybe someone could do the the old Reason s
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by jdougan 10mo ago
One of the nicer features of D is that arrays are value types with no degrade to pointer.
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by jdougan 11mo ago
Smalltalk romantics
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by jdougan 11mo ago
do you have showdead turned on?
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by jdougan 11mo ago
I think the original was supposed to be to the music from "The Caissons Go Rolling Along".
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by jdougan 1y ago
Were the roasts correct?
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by jdougan 1y ago
I'm not sure I'd want to limit the selection of languages that much. Depending on the project and how much language risk you can manage (as opposed to security risk), there also is D, Odin, and Zig. And probably a bunch more I&#x2
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by jdougan 1y ago
Another advsys enjoyer! Did you ever write a game with it?
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by jdougan 1y ago
but not command.com
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by jdougan 1y ago
I was likely one of your students. I took the course around then, but don't have my records accessible. It was definitely worthwhile going to the low-level.
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by jdougan 1y ago
Did you teach the UBC CS systems programming course in 1985?
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by jdougan 1y ago
I still use "saltchuck" when I'm distracted. Confuses the heck out of Californians.
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by jdougan 1y ago
Also varies by region in the US for referring to highways. In Southern California it is usually "the I-5" while on the other coast you will hear a plain "I-95".
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by jdougan 1y ago
A little less derogatory, in my estimation.
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by jdougan 1y ago
I (West Coast) pretty much entirely associate "all-dressed" with potato chips.
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by jdougan 1y ago
I'm pleased to see some of the Chinook jargon is there.
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by jdougan 1y ago
It made some inroads in to BC in the 80s, mostly thanks to Bob and Doug McKenzie, but never really stuck.
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by jdougan 1y ago
Apparently originated in Australia, though it is definitely an established usage in Canada. I seem to recall hearing that usage in Vancouver in the 90s. https://gikken.co/mate-translate/blog/from-darts-to-cigarett.
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by jdougan 1y ago
MathCAD? TK!Solver?
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by jdougan 1y ago
You have to admire the "Winners buy the drinks for the losers." curlture.

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