First reference of Smalltalk in usenet
John M McIntosh
johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Mon Dec 17 19:19:09 UTC 2001
> >Justin was worried about copyright, and with good reason. Since this is
>>sort of a Squeak -2.0, I wonder how we should treat it? Actually the
>>important question is: what does Apple think of it?
>
>Well, I wouldn't worry about it much. We could write them, but I
>think best to let sleeping dogs lie. This is really a historical
>investigation, and I think they'd be happy to see it revived (oops,
>did I say that ;-). I think Squeak sets an upper limit on their
>concern because it is Apple Smalltalk *plus* cross-platform *plus*
>large address space *plus* color *plus* music, *plus*..., and it was
>given out 5 years ago.
>
> - Dan
A few years back I looked at ObjectWorks source versus Squeak and it
was interesting to see which code was still the same because of the
common base they share.
I wonder if you could write an emulator to run it under Squeak, ala
smalltalk-72.
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