Re: What Is A “Workstation”?
> Dedicated Smalltalk and LISP machines gave us a certain kind of power, but at a cost: when you have no source code files, you cannot share patches to those source code files.
Medley Interlisp, the system software of Xerox Lisp Machines, largely overcomes this issue as it's not a pure image-based environment. It's a "residential environment", a hybrid where you still develop in the image, but save the code to files that are treated more like code databases than source files. In fact, the Medley Interlisp revival project stores the full sources on GitHub and the maintenance and development work is based on pull requests.
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