Squeak and PalmOs?

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at disney.com
Sat Apr 14 19:05:35 UTC 2001


An even better argument for the point I was making ....

Cheers,

Alan

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At 10:48 AM -0700 4/14/01, Tim Rowledge wrote:
>Alan Kay <Alan.Kay at disney.com> is widely believed to have written:
>
>>        Palm is not selling into a SW value oriented market, but into a
>>  consumer one. They are probably working on a better theory of
>>  implementation right now (just as MS and Apple had to) because they
>>  couldn't see ahead or even understand the actual state of the art
>>  when they started.
>They're also going to be able to make some big improvements in their
>system soon since they have decided to go with ARM cpus for the future.
>Lots more mips to play with, even better battery life. And an
>intelligable instruction set :-)
>
>tim
>--
>Tim Rowledge, tim at sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim
>Gotta run, the cat's caught in the printer.





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