Now that's a teaser if ever I've heard one!  :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Kay [mailto:Alan.Kay at disney.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 8:35 PM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: smalltalk76 (was: [newbie] how does Object implement new?)
>
>
> Most importantly, class Class was an instance of itself, and class
> Object was a superclass of itself. The "magic of microcode" was what
> allowed those two relations to be circular. The explicit metaclasses
> of Smalltalk-80 really don't do enough work to justify their
> complexity IMNSHO. But, wait until after this summer .....
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan
>
> At 9:08 PM -0500 3/29/01, Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote:
> >On Thursday 29 March 2001 18:42, Stephen Pair wrote:
> >>ÝAre there any papers (or code) for Smalltalk-76 on the web? ÝI'm sure
> >>Ýthey've been announced before (and wasn't there an implementation of
> >>Ýit for Squeak?), but I've forgotten.
> >
> >This one is great:
> >
> >http://users.ipa.net/~dwighth/smalltalk/St76/Smalltalk76Programmi
> ngSystem.html
> >
> >but doesn't mention meta-classes. On page 34 of Alan Kay's "The Early
> >History of Smalltalk" paper there is a drawing labeled "Smalltalk-76
> >Metaphysics". All classes were instances of the class Class object,
> >which was a subclass of the class Object. Little Smalltalk initially
> >had the same design (which makes all classes have the exact same set of
> >class methods) but has moved to a more Smalltalk-80-like system in
> >version 4.
> >
> >There is a simulation in Squeak of Smalltalk-72, not 76.
> >
> >-- Jecel
>