Ship it with Squeak
Stefan Matthias Aust
sma at 3plus4.de
Wed Jun 28 21:44:53 UTC 2000
At 00:35 28.06.00 -0700, Alan Kay wrote:
>Henrik --
>
>>Alan Kay>> Most of the next billion machines are not going to be either
>>Macs or PCs
>>>> ..... but will certainly be connected to Internet.
Actually, I'd be more pessimistic and say that if Microsoft doesn't make
big mistakes, Windows will continue to stay for a long time. And there're
millions of PCs out there.
Of course perhaps even more new non-Windows-PC computers will hit the
market but targeting only them, is like ignoring the present and hoping for
the future.
IMHO, Squeak shouldn't ignore current, conventional machines and, I think
this was where this argument came from, therefore needs a conventional UI, too.
>Not really. Many of the next generation of mobile phones will have
>StrongARM or equivalent chips, reasonable displays, and will be
>connectable to the net. Settop boxes, PDAs, etc.
And they all will run Java ;-) And Windows CE, oder PalmOS - replacing one
monopol with another doesn't help...
>eventual UIs on (I think many people on the list realize that the present
>UI (er, UIs) is just a placeholder for a near future more uniform and
>richer scheme for the "omniuser").
Do you have more details on that new near future UI?
bye
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Stefan Matthias Aust // Bevor wir fallen, fallen wir lieber auf
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