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Re:Alan Kay on the Meaning of “Object-Oriented Programming” ... by chrisseaton on Sunday March 17, 2019 @05:06PM (#19416606)
This talks about primarily asynchronous message passing, which doesn't seem to be what anyone means in practice.
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Re:Alan Kay on the Meaning of “Object-Oriented Programming” ... by pjmlp on Sunday March 17, 2019 @06:07PM (#19416999)
Actually that is how NeXT implemented distributed objects.

http://www.nextop.de/NeXTstep_3.3_Developer_Documentation/Ge...

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Re:Alan Kay on the Meaning of “Object-Oriented Programming” ... by chrisseaton on Sunday March 17, 2019 @06:10PM (#19417023)
That document says that their messages were synchronous by default, and that asynchronous was something extra built on top just for distributed objects, not how they worked normally and not part of a uniform message passing interface.
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Re:Alan Kay on the Meaning of “Object-Oriented Programming” ... by pjmlp on Sunday March 17, 2019 @06:15PM (#19417068)
Yes, it was up to you to change the behavior on doesNotUnderstand: methods, but the feature was available, just a matter of defaults.
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