>
> At Interval Research we made a realtime OS out of Squeak. Seemed
> promising, which of course is why it was canned in favour of WinCE. A
> just about readable copy of my OOPSLA 99 paper on the system is at
> http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim/pooters/RTOSinSmalltalk.html
>
> tim

And of course, this wonderful code is buried somewhere to never be used 
again. The wonders of propietary closed source software. Interval has 
donated some things, but if they didn't want to use a RTOS Squeak, what 
makes them think someone else ever will? ( Why hold on to dead project 
code? No one is gonna buy it! Set it free! ).

RTOS Squeak now moulders on a musty tape somewhere with NEWS and other 
innovative software that people could learn from... Heck, they managed 
to talk SUN into releasing SELF, and SUN is still around... <:)

This is something the squeak community could really use ( along with a 
robust clean widget set in the image, last time I looked, Prefab is not 
included, and the morphic widgets are all half-implemented or 
excessively hairy). This would go a long ways to help making Squeak 
very very very very useful for more than just one-off demos and 
presentation eye-candy. I play with Squeak alot, but I bang my head 
against it sometime. 

Will we ever see the light of this stuff from Interval? Could we buy it? 
I mean, the users of Blender bought the source code out, and open 
sourced it. Could we do the same? Is there a price?

I'll put $250 where my mouth is on this issue.

-Daniel