I hope I can make it...for once.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Pair [mailto:spair at advantive.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 11:53 AM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: RE: Squeak's Birthday (Was Re: Adding a word to 
> Squeak's object
> header)
> 
> 
> OOPSLA might be a nice place to throw a Squeak birthday party.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> > [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> > Behalf Of Rob Withers
> > Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 3:31 AM
> > To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> > Subject: Re: Squeak's Birthday (Was Re: Adding a word to 
> > Squeak's object header)
> > 
> > 
> > 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 header)
> > 
> > 
> > > "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
> > >
> > >
> > ==============================================================
> > ==============
> > =====================
> > >
> > > 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
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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