>From: Alan Kay <alan.kay at squeakland.org>
>Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>, 
>squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>Subject: Re: Dynabook hw cost
>Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 08:28:23 -0700
>
>Hi  Subbu --
>
>See what you think of the "preposterous proposal" (as one reviewer termed 
>it).
>
>http://www.vpri.org/pdf/NSF_prop_RN-2006-002.pdf
>
>One of the ideas here is that you have to work the whole spectrum, but try 
>to find qualitative boundaries that can be maintained and will help all.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Alan

Well personally I am very hopeful about this proposal.  I have been thinking 
for some time now that it is time to look at a new style of OS, and this 
sounds very good indeed.  Do you have funding yet?  When can we expect to 
see something we can play with? :)

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