How about presents?  Why don't we all send the one enhancement or fix to
the list in honor of the roaring rodent?

Sam S. Adams, IBM Distinguished Engineer, IBM Research
tie line 444-0736, outside 919-254-0736, email: ssadams at us.ibm.com
<<Hebrews 11:6, Proverbs 3:5-6, Romans 1:16-17, I Corinthians 1:10>>



                                                                                                                                
                    "Rob Withers"                                                                                               
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Ahh, where's the party going to be?  That's just over a month away.

Happy Birthday, Squeak!

- Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Russell Allen" <russell.allen at firebirdmedia.com>
To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 9:44 PM
Subject: Squeak's Birthday (Was Re: Adding a word to Squeak's object
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> "Rob Withers" <rwithers12 at mediaone.net> wrote:
> > Speaking of which, Squeak, and more importantly it's community - all of
you,
> > continue to amaze and surprize me, after 1.5 years.  That reminds me,
when
> > is Squeak's birthday and how old is she?  We ought to have a birthday
party.
>
> Dan sent an email announcing Squeak to comp.lang.smalltalk on 01 Oct
> 1996, which by my reckoning means that we are coming up to Squeak's 5th
> Birthday.
>
> Russell
>
>
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>
> Message 1 in threadFrom: Dan Ingalls (Ingalls at Taurus.Apple.com)
> Subject: Squeak - A Usable Smalltalk written in itself
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
> View this article only
> Date: 1996/10/01
>
>
> Dear Smalltalkers,
>
> In order to foster collaboration with related groups in academia and
> industry, we have just made our software development environment
> available for download over the net.  Dubbed "Squeak" it consists
> largely of a reconditioned Smalltalk-80 system derived from Apple's
> earlier ST-80 release, along with an interpreter that runs on the
> PowerPC and most other 68020 or later Macs (but read on...)
>
> The implementation is notable in that it is almost entirely written in
> Smalltalk.  We began with the Blue Book spec to which we added a
> 32-bit direct pointer ObjectMemory with incremental compacting garbage
> collection.  While getting this to run and converting the image, we
> wrote a translator  from a Smaltalk subset (roughly the subset used
> for the Blue Book spec) to C.  After some tuning this has produced a
> very usable system.  In addition, we have extended BitBlt to color,
> added a reasonably portable file system, and we have also included
> rudimentary support for polyphonic multitimbral music synthesis.
>
> The entire system, including the interpreter written in Smalltalk, and
> the translator that produced its interpreter, is now available to the
> outside world.  You can find it all beginning with the page
>
>         www.Research.Apple.com/Research/proj/
>
> Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on "Squeak".  Or you can go
> direct to our actual page:
>
> http://www.research.apple.com/research/proj/learning_concepts/squeak/
>
> There is almost no documentation, but those familiar with Smalltalk-80
> should have no trouble putting it to use.  Squeak is a work in
> progress.  If we had waited to get clean and well-documented, it would
> not be available now.  We welcome any contributions from the outside,
> such as animation, 3D, music, and ports to other platforms.
>
> Please do not reply directly to me or other members of the project.
> Use the mail address given on our page (squeak at Research.Apple.com),
> and we will do our best to answer reasonable queries.
>
> Enjoy
>
>         - Dan Ingalls
>
>