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A comment on Reviving Smalltalk-78: The First Modern Smalltalk Lives Again (2014) [pdf].

Re:Reviving Smalltalk-78: The First Modern Smalltalk Lives A... by genry_porter on Friday October 09, 2015 @05:58PM (#10363502)
Smalltalk running in a browser with the help of JavaScript and cloud... They definetely didn't planned that in 1978!
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Re:Reviving Smalltalk-78: The First Modern Smalltalk Lives A... by pavlov on Friday October 09, 2015 @06:48PM (#10363701)
Actually they did. It's just loading a Smalltalk image over the network into a VM. That's fundamentally what the Smalltalk systems of the '70s were designed to do.
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