an amusing Neal Stephenson quote

Stephen Pope stp at create.ucsb.edu
Wed Jun 16 23:00:43 UTC 1999


This sounds right, but John Maloney named Celeste, I believe.

stp

Glenn Krasner wrote:
> 
> Mike,
> 
> Steve Putz at PARC, in the mid-'80s built a great email system in Smalltalk
> that he called "Babar" (elephant never forgets); see
> http://www.parc.xerox.com/pubs.html. In addition to regular mail stuff, it
> kept the email in a database, and had unique IDs for each email, so that it
> could uniquely save each email (rather than a copy of just the text in each
> "folder") and so it could maintain reference links for threads of email
> conversation and things like that.
> 
> I assume that Stephen picked "Celeste" as an homage to Steve's Babar.
> Right, Stephen?

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