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Alto System Project: Dan Ingalls demonstrates Smalltalk

A roughly two-hour demonstration by Dan Ingalls of Smalltalk running on the Computer History Museum's restored Xerox Alto. It shows the integrated environment and language designed at Xerox PARC as personal dynamic media.

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Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as a vivid look at live, interactive programming environments and what Xerox PARC built on very limited hardware.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Computer History Museum
Topic
smalltalk and xerox parc
Format
demo
Level
intermediate
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
9
Recommendation years in dataset
2020–2025

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From the original HN conversations

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  • Since the talk was already posted yesterday, here's another great related video that is well worth watching: Dan Ingalls demonstrating Smalltalk 76 on a restored Xerox Alto. [VIDEO] This is where it all started and it's truly amazing what they achieved on such limited hardware.

    peterkelly on Hacker News · 2022-10
    In Stop Writing Dead Programs

  • Anything based on the workstation concepts explored at Xerox PARC, and further pursued at ETHZ, TI and Genera. Bitsavers has all the necessary papers and manuals, and computer museum as well. Here are some video sessions. "Yesterday's Computer of Tomorrow: The Xerox Alto │Smalltalk-76 Demo" …

    pjmlp on Hacker News · 2020-05
    In Advanced Programming Languages (2009)

  • Be prepared to be amazed with what Xerox PARC and others were doing, while Bell Labs was busy pushing for UNIX. "Eric Bier Demonstrates Cedar" [LINK] "Emulating a Xerox Star (8010) Information System Running the Xerox Development Environment (XDE) 5.0" [LINK] "Documents as User Interfaces …

    pjmlp on Hacker News · 2021-01
    In On Repl-Driven Programming

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