On Alan at HP labs

Gary Fisher gafisher at sprynet.com
Tue Feb 10 00:54:19 UTC 2004


Fascinating article, Jecel, particularly the "Past and Future" paragraph
which begins

>> In many ways, the computing world has made remarkably small advances
since 1976 . . .

Thanks for the pointer!

Gary


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jecel Assumpcao Jr" <jecel at merlintec.com>
To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
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Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: On Alan at HP labs


> On Monday 09 February 2004 16:36, Alan Kay wrote:
> > Heh, heh. Don't believe everything (or much) that was made up by a
> > publicist ....
>
> Drats, I had been so pleased to learn that Steven Wozniak had created
> the Mac ;-)
>
> On a related topic, there is now a new site (http://www.folklore.org)
> telling the story of the original Mac and Bruce Horn made some comments
> on Smalltalk (in 1996, before Squeak) at the bottom of this page:
>
>
<http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=On_Xerox,_Appl
e_and_Progress.txt&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date&detail=medium>
>
> -- Jecel
>




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