Steve Holden wrote:
Puts me in mind of Mario Wolczko's early attempts to implement SmallTalk on a VAX 11/750. The only bitmapped display we had available was a Three Rivers PERQ, connected by a 9600bps serial line. We left it running at seven o'clock one evening, and by nine am the next day it had brought up about two thirds of the initial VM loader screen ...
A couple of my contemporary postgraduate students worked on getting Smalltalk to run on an Apple Lisa. Their first attempt at a VM implementation was written in Pascal, and it wasn't very efficient. I remember walking into their room one day and seeing one of them sitting there watching it boot, drawing stuff on the screen v...e...r...y... s...l...o...w...l...y... At least their display was wired directly to the machine running the code. I hate to think what bitmapped graphics at 9600 baud would be like! -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
