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I was at Stanford from 1972-1978 and Adele Goldberg was a post-doc<br>
at IMSSS (Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences)<br>
where I was doing my graduate work under Pat Suppes who cofounded<br>
IMSSS with Richard Atkinson and Kenneth Arrow (Nobelist, economics).<br>
Adele was working at PARC and I visited her there and saw the Alto
with<br>
its bit mapped graphics. She told me about the T shirts and about
Small<br>
Talk, of which she later became editor of a 3 volume set (SmallTalk
80).<br>
You need to realize that at that time most people were using
teletypes<br>
to interact with time-sharing mainframes. At IMSSS we were
privileged<br>
to have IMLAC machines with vector graphics displays (yellow
characters<br>
on a green background). Those machines had 2K memory and 2K display<br>
memory. One needed to press "rug-F" (special key) in order to save
the<br>
edited text to the mainframe PDP-10 machine located 1/4 mile away
from<br>
IMSSS in Pine Hall (Computer center). We had one of the very first
display<br>
oriented text editor called TVEdit initially developed by Brian
Tolliver and<br>
John McCarthy (lisp fame). My friend Pentti Kanerva took over the
task<br>
of maintaining TVEdit and improved it. Both Douglas Hofstadter and
I<br>
used TVEdit to write his Goedel/Escher/Bach and my dissertation.<br>
So there you have a brief history of the early computer development.<br>
We used SAIL for our programming language (Stanford AI Language,<br>
or Stanford AI memo L) which was a variant of Algol. Niklaus Wirth<br>
used Algo-60 (and taught at Stanford, circa 1965) to develop Pascal,<br>
Modula, Oberon, and then Oberon Microsystems developed Component
Pascal.<br>
-Doug Danforth<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/10/2016 5:28 PM, Lars wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Also, how do you know about PARC? did you work there or visit there? How'd
you find out about the tshirts? An on going rumor or you were in their
building at some point ? <span class="moz-smiley-s1" title=":-)"><span>:-)</span></span></pre>
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