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The presentation style is not up to today's standards (and the accidental [Dutch tilts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_angle) are disorienting), but I found this fascinating to contrast with development today. It's weird when a statement like, "In most problems, 20-50% of the problem preperati...
A new video digest of the Mother of All Demos by Christina Engelbart & Brett Victor.
This was produced by the Computer History Museum's Software History Center.
Dan highlights the motivation for Smalltalk (provide a system personal dynamic media) and highlights the various aspects of Smalltalk that allow live construction and modifications.
Been working on this framework for a few years. I like to call it the "go on rails" framework. I use this in production for several clients. It runs so nicely on the google compute free tier VM. You get a 30GB hard drive, 1GB ram, and two AMD EPYC 7B12 2250 MHz processors which is plenty for a littl...