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Article #88Re: INFO-MICRO Digest V89 #132 - The "Macintoy" chant
From: Steve Savitzky
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 1989 19:44
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 1989 19:44
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In article <27987.615051406@mbunix> munck@mitre.org (Bob Munck) writes: >Mostly a good history lesson, but I have a few quibbles: my impression >was that the Alto's chief language was Mesa The Alto was microcoded; the original microcode emulated a DG Nova. Much of the original OS was written in BCPL; Smalltalk was written in assembler. Later on, microcode instruction sets were designed for Smalltalk, Interlisp, and Mesa. Smalltalk was the "official" language for the "interim Dynabook" project. > the Alto screen was >606x808; Well, I knew it was somewhere around there... > I don't remember "cellular radio" being mentioned in the >original Dynabook descriptions. It wasn't called "cellular", of course, but one of the scenarios involved sitting out in the woods and accessing a database server somewhere else. -- Steve Savitzky | steve@arc.uucp | apple.com!arc!steve ADVANsoft Research Corp. | (408)727-3357 4301 Great America Parkway | #include<disclaimer.h> Santa Clara, CA 95054 | May the Source be with you!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!apple!arc!steve From: steve@arc.UUCP (Steve Savitzky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc Subject: Re: INFO-MICRO Digest V89 #132 - The "Macintoy" chant Message-ID: <411@arc.UUCP> Date: 6 Jul 89 19:44:22 GMT References: <27987.615051406@mbunix> Reply-To: steve@arc.UUCP (Steve Savitzky) Organization: Advansoft Research Corp, Santa Clara, CA Lines: 26