Tektronix Smalltalk Document Archive
wirfs-brock.com> H-P looks upon their Smalltalk-80 effort as an evaluation of the system as a personal computing environment for _non_-accomplished programmers. He also mentioned that they view Smalltalk-80 as a product usable by non-hackers.
This vision of personal computing has been lost. Today we have the scribes and everyone else, and industry is not at all interested in making systems that permit true "literacy"