The way I see it the process of cloning and modification Smalltalk
environments have had since the 70s is similar to that of living systems.
I'm particularly honored to be able to see Smalltalk code from those days
but also thrilled to watch Smalltalk evolve.

Regards.

German Viscuso

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Timothy Rowledge" <tim at sumeru.stanford.edu>
To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: oldest bits in Squeak?


>
> On Feb 17, 2004, at 1:13 PM, Lex Spoon wrote:
>
> > How old are the oldest bits in Squeak?  When was the last time an image
> > was created from scratch, as opposed to being modified from a previous
> > version?
>
> Well that's two quite separate questions. I'm pretty sure the answer to
> the first one is likely to be 'from about 1978' since my assumption is
> that st-80 image 1 was cloned from a st-78 image. Whether that was in
> turn cloned from a 76 or even eventually a 72 I couldn't say - but I
> bet Dan or Ted could.
>
> The last time an image was made from scratch could be more recent than
> you'd expect. Ale. is/was doing work with a system that can do that.
> He's mentioned it a few times on the list.
>
> tim
>
>
>