May 9, 2018
10:19 a.m.
I go back to Alan Kay's vision of a Dynabook: A personal computer for children of all ages. It should contain all its owner's personaldata, including his or her personal programs, as they evolve through the years. Continuity is a must; the owner shall never loose data.
Do you really expect that the dynabook will be 100% backward compatible to Smalltalk-80? Marcus