With all due respect, Karl, and with many thanks for taking the trouble to
post that info, what you linked was Alan's foreword to Mark's earlier book,
not the current volume (unless S:OPC&M uses the same foreword, of course; I
don't have my copy yet).

Gary Fisher
Spectrum Electronics, Inc.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Ramberg" <karl.ramberg at chello.se>
To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 2:22 AM
Subject: Re: Alan's foreword to "Squeak: Open Personal Computing and
Multimedia


>
> http://guzdial.cc.gatech.edu/squeakbook/AlansForeword.html
> http://guzdial.cc.gatech.edu/squeakbook/AlanKayForeword.pdf
>
> karl
>
> Alan Kay wrote:
> >
> > Folks --
> >
> > Apologies all around. I fully expected to get the promised chapter
> > done and on Squeakland before the book actually came out. At that
> > time I didn't know we were going to decide to leave Disney. I have
> > spent the entire summer on "other things" relating to the new
> > nonprofit company we have just set up. I am still doing this. In the
> > next several weeks I will at least have time enough to get around to
> > making a place holder for the promised chapter on Squeakland that
> > will explain all this. Then I will perhaps in Oct be able to finish
> > up the actual chapter.
> >
> > Best to all,
> >
> > Alan
> >
> > At 4:54 PM -0300 9/15/01, Diego Gomez Deck wrote:
> > >Hi...
> > >
> > >>I just received my copy from Amazon and I'm dying to read Alan's
"real"
> > >>online Active Essay foreword but I can't for the life of me find it.
Am I
> > >>brain dead or is it not actually on the web? Anyone know?
> > >
> > >I can't find it too.... I tried in google, altavista, etc but nothing
appears
> > >
> > >>I appreciate the use of a content reference rather than a URL, but it
didn't
> > >>seem to work for me. Any help is appreciated.
> > >>
> > >>PS Thanks to all who had a hand in creating this book! It is quite
exciting!
> > >
> > >I feel the same, the book is wonderful!
> > >
> > >>--
> > >>Randy Siler               Coordinator, CIDR Computing
> > >>Center for Instructional Development & Research
> > >>396 Bagley Hall, BOX 351725               VOICE: 206/543-6588
> > >>UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON           FAX: 206/685-1213
> > >>SEATTLE, WA 98195-1725                EMAIL: siler at cidr.washington.edu
> > >
> > >Diego Gomez Deck
> >
> > --
>
>