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Have you looked at the tooling in Genera or other lisp machines?

In case you want to know more about them, they're called "Miller columns"

There was a browser that worked on Squeak 3, Whisker, that had some of these attributes. I used it up until it became unsupported. It took a little getting used to as its primary orientation was horizontal, but in the age of widescreen monitors that is an advantage.

Wiki description: https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1993

Archive of its homepage. Has an image of the browser in use. https://web.archive.org/web/20070228113449/http://www.mindsp...


Yes, Whisker is exactly what came to mind for me as well.

I don't currently use Smalltalk, most of my code is now written (and read) in vscode. The means available for showing the context around the code under consideration (splitting and resizing panes, hunting through lists of tabs, scrolling around) feel pretty crude by comparison.


Time flies like a banana.

Every so often I fire up an old Squeak Smalltalk image, put it in full screen mode, and pretend that much of the intervening years never happened.

But Squeak is 1996 ;)

Close enough. I had a copy of MacOS Apple Smalltalk from the 1985 training course I took, and had started a job using Objectworks. Squeak 1.0 is quite close to ST-80.

> what's a cubit?

What's an ark?


Yup. He is, by all accounts, a great supply-chain guy. eg. As far as I can tell, there were no significant breaks in Apple's supplies during COVID.

But he clearly falls afoul of Steve Jobs'warning about leaders with no taste.


This is even an understatement.

It’s not a stretch to say that Tim Cook created the whole Shenzhen microelectronics industry. The thousands of specialist component vendors and large integrators that assemble products trace to his instigation with Compaq and then Apple. The iPod, Macs, iPhone, copied the Swiss Watch model of vast redundant networks of component competetors working as an ecosystem to drive down costs.

This created the skill and machinery base that made it possible for other western design companies (such as Android vendors that were not Samsung or Japanese) to make clones of the iPhone quickly and easily. (Let’s be real, every smartphone is an iPhone 1 clone)

China owes a lot to this work.


Tim Cook needs to drop some acid. He has no creativity what so ever.


You'd think a supply chain guy would be able to get ahold of some psychedelics too...


Have you looked at the Apple Newton memory architecture?

http://waltersmith.us/newton/HICSS-92.pdf


Thanks, will do


In Eclipse Phase:

> The acronym TITAN stands for Total Information Tactical Awareness Network. These were a group of highly advanced, self-improving seed Artificial Intelligences (AIs) that are responsible for the catastrophic event known as The Fall.

Someone else has already made the mandatory Torment Nexus quote.


Emacs is a (virtual) Lisp Machine


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