The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)(worrydream.com)
116 points by _reza | 69 comments
Alan Kay's 1993 HOPL-II paper recounting the origins and development of the Smalltalk programming language, hosted as HTML on worrydream.com.
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Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?(quora.com)
176 points by midnightfish | 61 comments
A Quora answer by Alan Kay to the question of whether the ENIAC computer had a BIOS; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.
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Alan Kay: Shannon gave us a way of dealing with noisy channels [video](youtube.com)
132 points by behoove | 24 comments
YouTube clip of Alan Kay at Kristen Nygaard's centenary symposium, caught in a delayed Zoom audio feedback loop while remarking on Shannon and noisy channels.