Yesterday's Computer of Tomorrow: The Xerox Alto │Smalltalk-76 Demo
What it is
A Computer History Museum demonstration with Dan Ingalls of Smalltalk-76 running on a Xerox Alto, recorded in 2017. He shows the live environment and discusses the system.
Why Hacker News recommends it
Used as a concrete example of live, REPL-driven Smalltalk environments and of what 1970s PARC computing looked like.
- 1 people recommended it
- 1 different months
- 0 strong recommendations
- first 2020, last 2025
What HN commenters said
“Here are some video sessions.”
Among video sessions on Xerox PARC workstation concepts
pjmlp, 2020-05 · Recommendation · in “Advanced Programming Languages (2009)”
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Topics: smalltalk-76, xerox alto, dan ingalls, repl-driven development, computer history
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