At 5:36 PM -0000 12/3/98, Jerome Garcia wrote:
>     >
>     Several folks and groups on this list have created linkages to outside
>     code. This is not a great interest of "Squeak Central" at Disney since
>     one of our goals is extreme multiplatform transportability. But see
>     Andreas Raab's work with the modular VM and several efforts at
>     Active-X, etc. linking.
>     >
>
>     Does this goal of "extreme multiplatform transportability" include a
>     plan to support direct Squeak access of hardware acceleration provided
>     by the various boards that support either OpenGL or DirectX so it is
>     not necessary to use linkages to outside code for that purpose? I
>     would much rather write Squeak only code to write a game or simulation
>     than resort to linkages.

"Plan" is too strong a word at this point, but the accellerators have not
escaped our notice ...

Cheers,

Alan