Re: [PLUG] sage

[Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Pharo sounds great. And PLUG's upcoming schedule is pretty thin. Do
you know enough about it to be able to talk about it at an upcoming
meeting? :)

On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 07:05:27PM -0500, Lynn Bradshaw via plug wrote:
> Both computing history and nuclear strategy are wild.
> 
> If I had to guess, most people here have already heard of what
> happened with Xerox PARC and Smalltalk and their ideas being stolen,
> but many might not know that you can have a fully modernized, open
> source variation of what they did in the 80s:
> 
> https://pharo.org/
> 
> It can work with Git and GitHub; the community has a very active
> Discord; it's all really great.
> 
> Another system that is lesser-known today but certainly not
> insignificant is the early computerized learning system PLATO:
> 
> https://distributedmuseum.illinois.edu/exhibit/plato/
> 
> Originally intended for networked, interactive education, it later
> became a means of other forms of communication and even very early
> online multiplayer gaming.
> 
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 11:06 AM jeffv via plug
> <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > The most important computer you’ve never heard of
> >
> > https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/01/the-most-important-computer-youve-never-heard-of/
> >
> > SAGE, the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment, was the solution to the
> > problem of defending North America from Soviet bombers during the Cold War.
> >
> >
> > Did not run Windows.
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