>I have a dream.
>In my mind I would like to see many of the productivity type apps with a high quality Squeak implementation.
>Email, web-browser, word-processors, spreadsheets, PIM, etc.
>At work I am on a WinME machine, at home LinuxBox, wife and children on Macs.
>
>Squeak supercedes the OS. Squeak can provide for reasonably seemless transition from one OS to another. As anyone who has used computers for any length of time can attest, OSes come OSes go. However Squeak can remain because it can ride on the wave.
>
>It would be nice if most of the truly important or critical apps were Squeak based.
>Anyone else share this dream. :)

I think all of us that have been Smalltalkers for a long time share this dream.  I've always stated it slightly differently.  I want to use a machine where Smalltalk IS the operating system (as it was designed and as Squeak is fully capable of being).  And, of course, to have that I'd need all my usual apps built in Squeak.  Many other have had this dream and have implemented huge parts of it in Squeak and in other Smalltalks.

There was even several Smalltalk-based computers.  Only one that I know of (Momenta) made it into production but I know of people who worked on other ones.


C. Gable Watts
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