Saving The World.

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Sun Sep 2 03:37:01 UTC 2001



> I am kinda inunndated by trafik on this list, There should be a focused
> list for hacking the VM into a full modern OS, and for creating the
> objects and modules for OS services...
Been there, done that, got the layoff letter. Not worth the time; plenty
of other people are playing with OS's (although it does seem they are
mostly just repeating stuff from thirty years ago, badly) so just make
use of any good results. There are better  uses of ones time.


> To get started I should get a working squeak system...
That would certainly help.

> I also would like ISBN #s, and URLs for the current Smalltalk/Squeak
> manuals and refferance materaial... I prefer hardcopy, I am also looking
> at the website. There is a lot of stuff there, much of it is probably
> redundant, superficial, or too specialized.. What I need is a shopping
> list that will give me the COMPLETE picture without redundancy...
Ain't no such thing. There is plently of doc around, most of it
referenced from the squeak.org site and/or the swiki. Much of it only
exists in virtual form. There are two books on Squeak (search amazon.com
or you favourite booksite for 'Squeak and guzdial') and several on
Smalltalk. Even ignoring the completely implausible request for no
redundancy, there simply isn't any such thing as 'complete'. We keep
changing things!


> My goal here is to build a system that's strong enough to force
> Microsoft to play fairly. =P
Been there, done that (twice), got _both_ layoff letters. Oh, I'm being
redundant again.

tim




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