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14:02:26
splittist
When did space bars become so large? That's where the Control Meta Super Hyper ... modifiers should be.
14:58:13
jcowan
Apple offers schools at all levels incredibly cheap deals, expecting to lock students into Macs for the rest of their lives.
15:06:57
jcowan
The Arc REPL is implemented by reading Arc forms with the Racket reader, compiling them into Racket, calling Racket's eval. In turn, Racket's eval compiles its argument into Racket bytecode, which is executed by the Racket VM, which has a JIT.
16:52:51
Shinmera
jcowan: At my school the laptop was still more expensive than buying a non-mac retail price with better hardware specs
16:55:25
frgo
At my school we had a Commodore PET2001. I later owned an Atari ST1040 which I upgraded to 4 MB of RAM by soldering a PCB myself and then put in a SPECTRE Mac Emulator. On that environment I write my Diploma thesis document ...
16:56:17
Shinmera
We had a thing where we "only" had to pay half or whatever, but it was still expensive
16:56:20
jcowan
Ah, okay. I was talking about situations where the school owns the computer and issues it in turn to many students.
16:56:58
jcowan
Apple sells 10,000 Macs, or whatever, to a whole university or school district and then discounts even more deeply.
21:37:59
Bike
i think we should probably work out a better way of writing graph changes than "make a bunch of instructions and do insert-instruction several times"... later, though