[Self-interest] OurSelf trial now without invite!

[David Ungar]

Well, we did have to walk up a good hill to get to the CS building from the BART station.

> On Nov 25, 2020, at 1:02 PM, Mario Wolczko <mario at wolczko.com> wrote:
> 
> We dreamed of drawing the display in a minute. The first time I ran my VM on a Perq1 it took hours to paint the first screen.
> 
>> On Nov 25, 2020, at 10:57 AM, David Ungar <ungar at mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Impressive persistence!
>> 
>> Reminds me a bit of the first time I brought up Berkeley Smalltalk at UC. It was on an AED bitmapped display connected over a 9600 baud serial line to a shared VAX.  The first thing that happened was the whole screen was painted maybe black pixel by pixel which took about 20 seconds. Then the whole screen was painted maybe white, or maybe halftone which took another 20 seconds then each window was painted about three times it was extremely slow. Plus a bug in my font code in BitBLT which caused it to say Welcome to SnailTalk.
>> 
>> You and I must have some character trait in common for us to both be willing to put up with that kind of performance!
>> 
>> - David
>> 
>>> On Nov 25, 2020, at 10:07 AM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr <jecel at merlintec.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Mario Wolczko wrote on Tue, 24 Nov 2020 22:17:27 -0800
>>> 
>>>> I wonder if there's anyone reading this who remembers trying it out (kjx or Jecel, perhaps?).
>>> 
>>> I am pretty sure I didn't try it.
>>> 
>>> The day Self 4.0 came out was a holiday in Brazil (Carnaval) so I
>>> couldn't go to the univerity. But I was able to connect to a Sun 4
>>> machine from home using a 300 bps modem and rsh. I downloaded Self into
>>> the remote machine and ran it, with a tunnel from there to a X11 server
>>> on my home Linux PC (4MB 40MHz 386). I had to hold the mouse button for
>>> 15 seconds or so to have a menu pop up but I was able to play around
>>> with the cool new Morphic GUI.
>>> 
>>> Given the huge bandwidth limitations, I don't think the latency to a
>>> Sunlabs machine would have been a problem for me.
>>> 
>>> -- Jecel
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