OOPSLA might be a nice place to throw a Squeak birthday party.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of Rob Withers
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 3:31 AM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: Squeak's Birthday (Was Re: Adding a word to 
> Squeak's object header)
> 
> 
> Ahh, where's the party going to be?  That's just over a month away.
> 
> Happy Birthday, Squeak!
> 
> - Rob
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Russell Allen" <russell.allen at firebirdmedia.com>
> To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 9:44 PM
> Subject: Squeak's Birthday (Was Re: Adding a word to Squeak's 
> object header)
> 
> 
> > "Rob Withers" <rwithers12 at mediaone.net> wrote:
> > > Speaking of which, Squeak, and more importantly it's 
> community - all 
> > > of
> you,
> > > continue to amaze and surprize me, after 1.5 years.  That reminds 
> > > me,
> when
> > > is Squeak's birthday and how old is she?  We ought to have a 
> > > birthday
> party.
> >
> > Dan sent an email announcing Squeak to comp.lang.smalltalk 
> on 01 Oct 
> > 1996, which by my reckoning means that we are coming up to Squeak's 
> > 5th Birthday.
> >
> > Russell
> >
> >
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> ==============
> =====================
> >
> > Message 1 in threadFrom: Dan Ingalls (Ingalls at Taurus.Apple.com)
> > Subject: Squeak - A Usable Smalltalk written in itself
> > Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
> > View this article only
> > Date: 1996/10/01
> >
> >
> > Dear Smalltalkers,
> >
> > In order to foster collaboration with related groups in 
> academia and 
> > industry, we have just made our software development environment 
> > available for download over the net.  Dubbed "Squeak" it consists 
> > largely of a reconditioned Smalltalk-80 system derived from Apple's 
> > earlier ST-80 release, along with an interpreter that runs on the 
> > PowerPC and most other 68020 or later Macs (but read on...)
> >
> > The implementation is notable in that it is almost entirely 
> written in 
> > Smalltalk.  We began with the Blue Book spec to which we added a 
> > 32-bit direct pointer ObjectMemory with incremental 
> compacting garbage 
> > collection.  While getting this to run and converting the image, we 
> > wrote a translator  from a Smaltalk subset (roughly the subset used 
> > for the Blue Book spec) to C.  After some tuning this has 
> produced a 
> > very usable system.  In addition, we have extended BitBlt to color, 
> > added a reasonably portable file system, and we have also included 
> > rudimentary support for polyphonic multitimbral music synthesis.
> >
> > The entire system, including the interpreter written in 
> Smalltalk, and 
> > the translator that produced its interpreter, is now 
> available to the 
> > outside world.  You can find it all beginning with the page
> >
> >         www.Research.Apple.com/Research/proj/
> >
> > Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on "Squeak".  Or 
> you can go 
> > direct to our actual page:
> >
> > 
> http://www.research.apple.com/research/proj>
/learning_concepts/squeak/
> >
> > There is almost no documentation, but those familiar with 
> Smalltalk-80 
> > should have no trouble putting it to use.  Squeak is a work in 
> > progress.  If we had waited to get clean and 
> well-documented, it would 
> > not be available now.  We welcome any contributions from 
> the outside, 
> > such as animation, 3D, music, and ports to other platforms.
> >
> > Please do not reply directly to me or other members of the project. 
> > Use the mail address given on our page (squeak at Research.Apple.com), 
> > and we will do our best to answer reasonable queries.
> >
> > Enjoy
> >
> >         - Dan Ingalls
> >
> >
> 
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