For $150, Third-World Laptop Stirs a Big Debate

[Yanni Chiu]

phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org wrote:
> What, no Microsoft BASIC? <ducks and runs>

Way way back, I worked on desktop publishing software
on "developer" machines with the full complement of
640K of RAM. Not even a full meg. That's roughly the
environment that MS BASIC was designed for.

One of the reasons Python and Squeak/Smalltalk were
chosen is that they provide decent performance and
functionality for the resources they need.

--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists