"Ed Boyce" <edboyce at bu.edu> writes:

> stephane ducasse wrote:
> > you can have a look at Actalk (the 1989 paper of JP briot) in a few
> > lines of code you get message put in queue and each object having its
> > own thread.
> > I can send you the paper. There is also an implementation maintained
> > by serge stinckwich may be of the 1996 paper.
> >
> > Stef
> Stef,
>
> What few lines of code?  And can this be done to selected objects, so as
> to permit sensible factorization of object systems into threads?
>
> I've asked this same question before: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/552
>
> In all seriousness, I still believe that a clean breakthrough would be a
> vital long term enabling devolopment for Croquet in particular, and Squeak
> generally.
>
> Is this paper online (or can it be scanned and legally posted online?

Googling for "Actalk 1989 paper JP briot" yields

    http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/briot89actalk.html

which has copies in several formats.

frank