/. mentions squeak

Daniel Vainsencher danielv at netvision.net.il
Fri Nov 20 14:12:27 UTC 1998


Dan,
does the Squeak team mind the attention or may I post some more attractive info in
reply?

Ryan Davis wrote:

> http://www.slashdot.org/ just had a mention of us (about a mention of us).
> Check it out:
>
>     Jim Thompson writes "Today's edition of Project
>     Heresy at CNET News covers a very interesting new
>     (?) project called Squeak by, of all people, The
>     Disney Co. This project, targetted at embedded
>     devices, has a Smalltalk heritage and is based, to
>     some extent, on code from Apple. Apple required that
>     Disney not commercialize their product, so Disney has released it as Open
>     Source. Squeak is not itself an OS, but the Heretics speculate that Squeak
>     will soon be married to a scaled-down linux kernel an ported to all
> sorts of
>     handheld devices. Squeak sounds reasonably cool in that it's based on
>     Smalltalk-80 and has what sounds like a built-in "skins" feature for
> its UI.
>     Do any Slashdotters have more info on Squeak, on where to go for
>     more information? "
>
>            Ryan Davis         -=-    Zen Spider Software
>  -=- mailto:zss at ZenSpider.com -=- http://www.ZenSpider.com/ -=-
> I know that you believe you understand what you think I said but,
> I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.





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