On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 23:46 -0500, J.F.Gratton wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't there a few (well ok, at least one) > OS written in SmallTalk ? I seem to remember that from my computer > science courses. I could be something planted in my memory by some evil > alien that wanted to promote wide-spread use of SmallTalk, tho :) The Xerox PARC machines from the 1970s and early 1980s were like that. To a degree: Smalltalk was a great layer on top of some lower parts. > Regards, > > Jeff > > > On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 21:52 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Writing an OS in an interpreted language????? Unless it's using > > psyco. > > > > Still, every language has a domain that it's best able to solve, > > and it should stick to it. > > > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "Democracy is woman's greatest invention. Indeed, it even reflects her character: purposeless, irrational, subject to public opinion and passing fashions, rambling, confused, underhanded, scheming, in love with its own purity." Unknown; not my opinion, but still amusing.
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