Your win32 environment looks great!  I'm surprised there hasn't been
more noise about Squeak.  It's really incredible.

..b

Stephen Pair wrote:
> 
> Blake,
> 
> > My first impression was that it is not terribly, initially.
> 
> For a different impression, I played around with making a Squeak desktop
> that looks similar to a win32 environment (I apologize in advance to the Mac
> users :) ).  I put a GIF snapshot at:
> 
>         http://www.advantive.com/squeak/win_style_ss.gif
> 
> It incorporates many of the UI enhancements that people have talked about
> recently, as well as a few of my own.
> 
> > For
> > example, in a few hours of playing, I haven't been able to figure out
> > how to launch Scamper, although I ran across it a few times in the
> > documentation by clicking urls...  It took a good twenty minutes to find
> > the Command-D instruction for running scripts...
> 
> In a workspace (in a Morphic world), evaluate:  Scamper openAsMorph
> 
> > Bearing in mind I'm new to SmallTalk, how difficult would it be to write
> > an e-mail client for Squeak?
> 
> Shouldn't be terribly difficult, but one called Celeste already exists.  You
> could try enhancing it.
> 
> To run celeste, evaluate:       Celeste openOn: 'mailDatabase'
> 
> - Stephen
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Blake Harris [mailto:jblakeh1 at airmail.net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 10:46 AM
> > To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> > Subject: Re: Squeak OS
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm pretty new to Squeak, but every time I launch it, it occurs to me
> > that this is what Java should have been many years ago.  It's stable,
> > fast, and it works!
> >
> > My first impression was that it is not terribly, initially.  For
> > example, in a few hours of playing, I haven't been able to figure out
> > how to launch Scamper, although I ran across it a few times in the
> > documentation by clicking urls...  It took a good twenty minutes to find
> > the Command-D instruction for running scripts...
> >
> > Bearing in mind I'm new to SmallTalk, how difficult would it be to write
> > an e-mail client for Squeak?
> >
> > In any case, I'm very fond of it thus far...
> >
> > Blake Harris
> >
> > Stephen Pair wrote:
> > >
> > > I like the idea of running Squeak as an OS, but some sort of "virtual"
> > > object memory would be needed to make it truly accepted as an OS (unless
> > > someone comes up with a cheap hardware solution in the near term)...is
> > > anyone working on such a beast?  I'd be interested to hear some of the
> > > design ideas in this area.
> > >
> > > - Stephen
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Michael Rueger [mailto:m.rueger at acm.org]
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 2:17 AM
> > > > To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> > > > Subject: Squeak OS
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > after a brief discussion with Andreas I want to share an interesting
> > > > link for those thinking of a Squeak OS:
> > > > http://www.vmware.com/
> > > >
> > > > And what it looks like running:
> > > > http://www.vmware.com/products/linux2.gif
> > > > "Desktop view showing Windows NT, Windows 98 and Linux running at the
> > > > same time"
> > > >
> > > > This would help to develop using one OS while trying to get
> > Squeak OS up
> > > > and running in parallel.
> > > >
> > > > Enjoy
> > > >
> > > > Michael
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." Alan Kay
> > > > +------------------------------------------------------------+
> > > > | Michael Rueger    m.rueger at acm.org      ++1 (310) 937 7196 |
> > > > +------------------------------------------------------------+
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> > --
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> > jblakeh1 at airmail.net
> > http://web2.airmail.net/jblakeh1
> >
> >

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