First reference of Smalltalk in usenet

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Mon Dec 17 19:19:09 UTC 2001


>  >Justin was worried about copyright, and with good reason. Since this is
>>sort of a Squeak -2.0, I wonder how we should treat it? Actually the
>>important question is: what does Apple think of it?
>
>Well, I wouldn't worry about it much.  We could write them, but I 
>think best to let sleeping dogs lie.  This is really a historical 
>investigation, and I think they'd be happy to see it revived (oops, 
>did I say that ;-).  I think Squeak sets an upper limit on their 
>concern because it is Apple Smalltalk *plus* cross-platform *plus* 
>large address space *plus* color *plus* music, *plus*..., and it was 
>given out 5 years ago.
>
>	- Dan

A few years back I looked at ObjectWorks source versus Squeak and it 
was interesting to see which code was still the same because of the 
common base they share.

I wonder if you could write an emulator to run it under Squeak, ala 
smalltalk-72.
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