Our ancient ancestor

http://www.wadlow.org/xerox-alto.html

tim
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On 2013-04-25, at 19:07, tim Rowledge <[hidden email]> wrote:

> http://www.wadlow.org/xerox-alto.html


With images:
http://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1981-09/BYTE_Vol_06-09_1981-09_Artifical_Intelligence#page/n59/mode/2up

And the month earlier was of course the famous Smalltalk issue:
http://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1981-08/1981_08_BYTE_06-08_Smalltalk#page/n0/mode/2up

- Bert -

And the wide bodied Alto had 512kB of memory = 1/2 MB, right?

RaspberryPi has a thousand times more.

So Squeak _should_ run on it properly... Does it?

--Hannes

On 4/30/13, Alexander Lazarević <[hidden email]> wrote:

On 01-05-2013, at 11:58 AM, "H. Hirzel" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> And the wide bodied Alto had 512kB of memory = 1/2 MB, right?
>
> RaspberryPi has a thousand times more.
>
> So Squeak _should_ run on it properly... Does it?

It certainly runs 'properly'. The raw performance (currently with the plain interpreter, stackvm coming soon and Cog sometime) is rather good at around 40mbc/s & 1.4msends/s, which is probably around 400 times faster than an Alto. Morphic UI performance is not so good but that is mostly because it's terrible on *all* machines with current high-end Macs etc managing to cover it up with brute power. Run an older image - say 2.8 era - and consider how we have managed to ruin the UI speed. Try an old image on a Pi and be amazed.


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Quoting tim Rowledge <[hidden email]>:

Or try Cuis on it. As responsive as the 2.8 (in a Morphic project),  
but also looks good.

> tim
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> tim Rowledge; [hidden email]; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> Useful Latin Phrases:- Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est  
> in aure. = I can't hear you. I have a banana in my ear.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich

On 01-05-2013, at 4:01 PM, "Juan Vuletich (mail lists)" <[hidden email]> wrote:

Quite right - I should have remembered to say that.


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