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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>----- Original Message ----- <BR>From: David A.
Smith <BR>To: squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org <BR>Sent: Wednesday,
December 04, 2002 11:29 PM<BR>Subject: Re: Croquet alpha
release(s?)<BR><BR><BR>The "gamma" label is my fault. I forgot the order
(though I guess it is <BR>pretty obvious). The official label of the current
version is "pre-alpha".<BR><BR>I have never seen game design done this way.
Speed comes from architecture. <BR>Anyone that tries to build a fast system
and then fit an architecture to it <BR>will never ship a
game.<BR><BR>DAS</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Croquet's not a game, though, so the
process might go differently . . .</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>(From <A
href="http://www.opencroquet.org/summary.html">www.opencroquet.org/summary.html</A>)</FONT></DIV>
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face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">"Croquet was
built to answer a simple question. If we were to create a new operating system
and user interface knowing what we know today, how far could we go. What kinds
of decisions would we make that we might have been unable to even consider 20 or
30 years ago, when the current set of operating systems were first
created."</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>