On Mar 16, 2012, at 0:03 , Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote:
Marcel Weiher wrote on Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:33:07 +0100
I have a little Postscript interpreter/scratchpad in the AppStore
(TouchScript,
http://itunes.apple.com/en/app/touchscript/id398914579?mt=8 ). Admittedly,
it
was mostly a trial
On Mar 14, 2012, at 17:17 , Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote:
Alan Kay wrote on Wed, 14 Mar 2012 05:53:21 -0700 (PDT)
No matter what Apple says, the reasons clearly stem from strategies and
tactics
of economic exclusion.
So I agree with Max that the iPad at present is really the anti-Dynabook
Alan Kay wrote on Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:44:33 -0700 (PDT)
The CRISP was too slow, and had other problems in its details. Sakoman liked
it ...
Thanks for the information! Just looking at the papers about it I had
the impression that it would be reasonably faster than an ARM at the
same clock
Jay Freeman has also released his Wraith Scheme for the iPad.
On Mar 14, 2012, at 9:17 AM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote:
Alan Kay wrote on Wed, 14 Mar 2012 05:53:21 -0700 (PDT)
A hardware vendor with huge volumes (like Apple) should be able to get a CPU
vendor to make HW that offers real
Yep, I was there and trying to get the Newton project off the awful ATT chip
they had first chosen. Larry Tesler (who worked with us at PARC) finally wound
up taking over this project and doing a number of much better things with it.
Overall what happened with Newton was too bad -- it could
Alan Kay wrote on Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:36:30 -0700 (PDT)
Yep, I was there and trying to get the Newton project off the awful ATT chip
they had first chosen.
Interesting - a few months ago I studied the datasheets for the Hobbit
and read all the old CRISP papers and found this chip rather cute.
Hi Jecel
The CRISP was too slow, and had other problems in its details. Sakoman liked it
...
Bill Atkinson did Hypercard ... Larry made many other contributions at Xerox
and Apple
To me the Dynabook has always been 95% a service model and 5% physical specs
(there were three main physical
