Dammit - I was offered a Mac IIfx last week but didn't get to it fast enough
- he only wanted ukp25 for it which was fine by me. To run it on a IIci
would I need to get a proper video card in order to free up some system RAM?
The other Macs I've got are Plus, Classic, Classic II, Colour Classic, II,
IIci, and LC2. Next week I might be getting a Performa 475 but aren't they
the same machine as the LC2?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Quebbeman [mailto:dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com]
> Sent: 14 July 2000 15:15
> To: 'classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org'
> Subject: RE: Another tech legend for discussion!
>
>
> > I've seen a document that described SmallTalk and thought
> it still looks
> > better than anything I've seen up to now; I think you're
> right about the
> > Star though, from what I remember of the Horn/Raskin
> discussion. I knew
> > Bruce Horn he was one of the SmallTalk developers though,
> dunno why I
> didn't
> > mention it.
>
> Although I run Squeak under Windows and on a Power Mac, I still prefer
> running the original Xerox Smalltalk-80 VI2.2 under System 6 on a Mac.
> I have it on a IIci, but the IIci has a Radius Rocket in it, and the
> virtual machine doesn't like its 68040. I have a Mac IIfx
> I'll be running
> it on in the near future, at almost twice the speed of the
> IIci's '030.
>
> I'll have to run the benchmarks, but I think it runs at 0.5 Dolphin.
>
> -dq
>
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Douglas Quebbeman [mailto:dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com]
> > > Sent: 14 July 2000 13:58
> > > To: 'classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org'
> > > Subject: RE: Another tech legend for discussion!
> > >
> > >
> > > I have it on good authority that Smalltalk-80 was not ported
> > > to the Star.
> > > It was running on the Alto and the Dolphin at the time, as
> > > well as another
> > > Xerox workstation whose name I can't recall. Larry Teslar was
> > > working at
> > > PARC at the time, and ended up following Jobs back to
> Apple, because
> > > Xerox couldn't get their asses in gear and Apple looked
> like it knew
> > > what it was doing (w/r/t getting new technology out the door).
> > >
> > > For those interested in what Smalltalk-80 feels like to
> > play with, you
> > > should try Squeak, a successor developed by some of Smalltalk-80's
> > > authors, Alan Kay and Dan Ingalls, at Disney. Squeak is everything
> > > ST80 was and more.
> > >
> > > You can find info about Squeak at:
> http://www.create.ucsb.edu/squeak/
>
Received on Fri Jul 14 2000 - 09:23:01 BST