A very aggressive reporter. I am helping some friends with a startup and 
they made the mistake of mentioning me and my "project" to her (also known 
as Tea, or t-time, or ...). It isn't really secret, it is just too early to 
talk about to the press.

Regards,

David



At 06:18 AM 4/26/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>Yep --
>
>... and with Andreas Raab. This is a project called t-Time that is a 
>Squeak-based platform for massive peer-peer collaboration in arbitrary 
>media (especially 3D). It is coming along well, and will probably be 
>released as open sources sometime in late summer or fall when it is stable 
>enough.
>
>Unlike current Squeak, which was (and is) a pretty straightforward upgrade 
>of Xerox PARC Smalltalk to the 21st century, t-Time has a number of 
>mechanisms that have not to my knowledge been implemented before, 
>including some very subtle ways to constantly resychronize processes that 
>are running on thousands of machines of various types, speeds, with 
>various network delays and errors between them.
>
>You all know Andreas Raab. Dave Smith is one of the best known guys in 
>personal computer video games, and was the founder of many companies 
>including "The Hunt For Red October" with Tom Clancy, and "Timeline" with 
>Michael Chrighton. Dave Reed is one of the great systems designers, and is 
>popularly known as "the '/' in TCP/IP" because he was instrumental in 
>putting those two protocols together when the ARPA and PARC folks made the 
>Internet work.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Alan
>
>At 4:40 AM -0400 4/26/02, Steve Elkins wrote:
>>The local (Raleigh, NC) paper has a weekly tech gossip column and it
>>had this item in it earlier this week:
>>
>>A P.S. on last week's column item mentioning David Smith, Virtus
>>veteran and now chief technologist and chairman at Cary-based
>>AirEight. The open-source software project he's working on "is and
>>isn't secret," Smith says. He spilled the fact that he's working with
>>Alan Kay (an inventor from the legendary Xerox Parc research center in
>>California who came up with the idea of overlapping windows on desktop
>>computer screens) and David Reed (software godfather and one-time
>>Lotus Development chief scientist). The three are putting their heads
>>together on a new software architecture aimed for release early next
>>year.
>>
>>http://newsobserver.com/business/columnists/story/1322747p-1359921c.html
>>
>>See http://www.newsobserver.com/dyrness/story/1299897p-1335076c.html
>>to read the sentence in the earlier column that mentions the open
>>source project.
>
>
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