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Smalltalker-80yesterday at 11:48 AM2 repliesview on HN

I've downloaded the entire thing a while back for nostalgia sake. And I am (of course) the proud owner of a physical copy of the "Smalltalk" issue :-) https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08


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whartungyesterday at 3:01 PM

Ditto. It's the only issue I saved.

I binned my large collection of Byte, Dr. Dobbs, etc. during a move. I recall taking them down from an attic cubby and then having to take them back up. Something like "Oh, forget it" came to pass. Stuff it heavy!

Interestingly, I think one of the most formative Byte articles for me was from 1978 (I think). It was an introduction to 3D graphics. Specifically the matrices for rotation and scaling etc.

I can assure that that while it is possible to visualize simple 3D models using the 40x25 character graphics of a PET, it's not advisable. The one thing I was unknowingly missing was Bresenham's line algorithm. That would have helped. I might have even moved up to "high res (80x50)" using the little block PETSCII characters.

I was able to work with it more in college where I had access to a Tektronix 4052 (which readily solve the whole line drawing problem).

NetMageSCWyesterday at 8:09 PM

I still have that issue and the threaded languages issue at my office. I also have the blue book and the orange book and the green book of Smalltalk internals.