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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