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Yesterday's Computer of Tomorrow: The Xerox Alto │Smalltalk-76 Demo
Computer History Museum
A Computer History Museum demonstration with Dan Ingalls of Smalltalk-76 running on a Xerox Alto, recorded in 2017. He shows the live environment and discusses the system.
Used as a concrete example of live, REPL-driven Smalltalk environments and of what 1970s PARC computing looked like.
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