Reviving the Notetaker's Smalltalk-78 System
Speaker: Dan Ingalls
Mon, August 18, 12:00pm – 12:30pm

Abstract: Smalltalk-78 was an interesting Sweet Spot on the way towards Smalltalk-80. It had the Smalltalk-76 bytecode kernel, and used BitBlt as its graphics kernel exclusively for the first time. Without blocks and meta classes it is an interesting contrast to current Smalltalks. We build a VM to run the Notetaker version in a web browser. It runs faster than the original, and with our extensions (including an http-based update stream) became a quite usable and enjoyable system.

Bio: Dan was the original designer of the Smalltalk--78 and -80 virtual machine and kernel class library.  He is now a principal investigator in the Communications Design Group at SAP Labs. The Smalltalk-78 revival is a collaboration with Bert Freudenberg, Ted Kaehler, Yoshiki Ohshima, and Alan Kay.

Experience it in your browser:
http://lively-web.org/users/bert/Smalltalk-78.html

Video Part1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTh65b8qSY8
Video Part2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3t13RHO3X8

More: IWST paper presentation
	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUZQemqQphg