an amusing Neal Stephenson quote

Michael S. Klein mklein at alumni.caltech.edu
Fri Jun 18 02:40:41 UTC 1999


> PS if Linux is a tank, and BeOS a batmobile, what is Squeak?

Squeak is the gossamer albatross. It's the gossamer penguin if you are 
running on Linux.

An elegant example of showing how do get off of the ground with amazingly
little resouces and amazingly lots of ingenuity.

-- Mike

> >	From his (also amusing) essay "In the Beginning was the Command
> >Line", while discussing GUIs as mediated experiences, during a Disney
> >World analogy...
> >
> >	"Disney does mediated experiences better than anyone. If they
> >understood what OSes are, and why people use them, they could crush
> >Microsoft in a year or two."
> >
> >	http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html





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