getting started

Joshua Marker lux at umich.edu
Tue Feb 23 16:26:55 UTC 1999


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

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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