[Webteam] Squeak History

Brad Fuller brad at bradfuller.com
Sat May 19 17:09:40 UTC 2007


subbukk wrote:
> On Friday 18 May 2007 11:02 pm, Craig Latta wrote:
>   
>>> not forgetting of course that Squeak was announced in september(?) 96
>>>       
>>      midnight pacific time, 1 October 1996.
>>     
> Is the birth date of Squeak Virtual machine or the Squeak Image? Though Squeak 
> was released in '96, some of the objects in its image must have been created 
> long before that. Is there a way to find out the oldest extant object in an 
> image?
>   
According to Dan's "Back to the Future"  article, the team started with
an Apple Smalltalk-80 implementation which contained the image and VM.
Maybe there is still some code from ST-80.

brad
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