On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Joshua Marker wrote:

> 
> 	I bet there is someone on the squeak list who is, though. :-)

I can't speak for Jennifer, but I am assuming she was confused what
mailing list this post came from.  We have are own internal Squeak list,
plus she is the teaching assistant for the "Squeak" class here at Georgia 
Tech. She probably gets lots of Squeak-related e-mail.  Besides, us
students are always confused!  

Ivan


> 
> On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Smilie wrote:
> 
> > to be honest with you, i know very little about unix.  you might want to 
> > email Mark or one of the other ta's.  they probably would be able to help 
> > you more than i could.    sorry.
> > 
> > Jennifer
> > 
> > > 
> > > I'd like to buy a PC and run squeak and a free unix on it, probably linux.  
> > > I know that I should get a 3 button mouse becuase I *don't* want to be
> > > pressing the control button to do simple gui things.  I don't know what
> > > kind of mouse to get, nor what sort of driver restrictions there are. I
> > > also don't know what sort of processor speed and RAM quantity would be
> > > appropriate for a Squeak developer.  Are there restrictions on the kind
> > > of video card?  Is there usefully better performance running squeak on
> > > standard intel hardware directly rather than having the squeak run on a
> > > unix running on the intel hardware?
> > >   Could someone please suggest a mouse and video card as well as minimal
> > > processor and memory?
> > >   Eric
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> 
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