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About Smalltalk

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Adele Goldberg told Xerox executives they were 'about to give away the kitchen sink' when Steve Jobs demanded a demo of Smalltalk.

This episode explores the history of Smalltalk, the revolutionary programming language that powered the graphical user interface of the Macintosh. It tells the story of its creators at Xerox PARC, their vision for educational computing with the Dynabook, and the dramatic moment when Steve Jobs saw the technology and Adele Goldberg tried to stop him from accessing it.

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