Squeak-dev July 2001

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RE: Edited Volume in stores July 13
by Noel J. Bergman 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

> It's the book whose pieces are at > http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/squeakbook (but much prettier, due to Ian > Piumarta's marvelous LaTeX talents) with a very nice CD by Stephen > Pope. [Also: ftp://ftp.create.ucsb.edu/pub/Squeak/CD-ROM/ - Karl] Also ftp://ftp.create.ucsb.edu/pub/Squeak/CD-ROM.zip and ftp://ftp.create.ucsb.edu/pub/Squeak/CD-ROM.sit. Is this book supposed to be a living document? For example, updated VMs? --- Noel

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Re: Jerry Archibald, 1940-2001
by Rosemary Michelle Simpson 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

Is there going to be any sort of community contribution in Jerry's name? If so, I would like to know where to send my contribution. R.

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Edited Volume in stores July 13
by Mark Guzdial 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

After a huge slowdown due to CD hiccups (to be specific, hiccups in the specifications for the CD <sigh>), the edited volume on Squeak is due to be in stores July 15. Mark -------------------------- Mark Guzdial : Georgia Tech : College of Computing : Atlanta, GA 30332-0280 Associate Professor - Learning Sciences & Technologies. Collaborative Software Lab - http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/csl/ (404) 894-5618 : Fax (404) 894-0673 : guzdial(a)cc.gatech.edu http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Faculty/Mark.Guzdial.html

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test
by Cees de Groot 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

test, please ignore

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Re: OT: Invention v. Innovation
by Richard A. O'Keefe 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

Forgive me, but I am in need of some solid authority and references relating the importance of incremental invention or innovation, as compared to pioneering and revolutionary invention. In particular, is there any consensus among authorities regarding the relative virtues of the two forms of creativity or their interactions? This sound a lot like "which half of a pair of scissors in more important?" Both are necessary.

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[UNIX] VM patches page updated
by Lex Spoon 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

I've updated my Unix VM patches page. Most notably there is now a link to a "Squeak-lex.tgz" file, which includes the complete build tree I personally use. This should be easier than downloading all the individual patches, applying them, generating new interp.c's etc from Squeak, and downloading whatever plugins you want--each step is easy but it sure adds up! The file includes Mpeg3Plugin and UnixProcessPlugin. It does not include any OpenGL stuff, because I didn't manage to hunt that down.... http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~lex/squeak/ I've included Andreas Kuckart's fix for acceptHandler() -- good job! I've read through acceptHandler() many times without noticing the problem. (Actually, my usual response is something like "eew, Let's just assume that nasty bit of code is correct". :)) I've also unified the two main sound drivers on that page ("-ianish" and "-sun") into a single sqUnixSound.c file, and given the configure script a "-with-sunos-audio" option that can be used to turn on the SunOS driver. (Instead of "with-sunos-audio", this should really be done with an autoconf test., I just didn't have enough time to fool with it. If anyone knows of a decent autoconf test for SunOS audio, let me know; I really wish autoconf just came with such a test!) Lex Spoon

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Squeak book chapter files on Swiki corrupt
by Noel J. Bergman 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

Several chapters on the Swiki (http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/squeakbook/35) have corrupt files that will not load with Acrobat: Back to the Future Once More Networking Squeak Porting Squeak The others appear to be OK, inasmuch as they load. --- Noel

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Re: RE: historical note (was: New Block Closures)
by JArchibald＠aol.com 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

Jerry Archibald, who passed away June 22nd, is getting a million and one emails from Squeak correspondents--can you make sure everyone knows not to email him anymore? Thank you, Christine Archibald

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Re: RE: historical note (was: New Block Closures)
by JArchibald＠aol.com 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

I am going through Jerry Archibald's emails to answer them: I regret to tell you that he died last Friday June 22nd from a heart attack. Best, Christine Archibald (daughter)

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Re: Out of space + other flakiness
by Bruce ONeel 01 Jul '01

01 Jul '01

Bob Arning <arning(a)charm.net> wrote: > The Windows VM can tap into the OS and grab more memory for the Smalltalk heap, so it considers all of OS memory available. The other VM's use a preallocated size, so free space can mean very different things. > <much helpful info deleted> I think the Mac carbon VM while running on OSX also can grap extra memory. Least I hope it can, otherwise what IS it doing with 1 gig :-) 364 Squeak 3.0 42.6% 6:15.70 5 87 87 15.1M 4.52M 17.8M 1.01G cheers bruce

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