Aug 29th, 2007

Articles I've found interesting (2000-2002)


From time to time I read some really neat articles that you might also enjoy reading.

So as the first item, see Steve Jobs' Apple Gets Way Cooler, Fortune Jan 24th 2000.

Also compare it to the earlier article from Time on the best personal computing products

David Michael Ungar's paper "The Design and Evaluation of A High Performance Smalltalk System"

Linux: Its history and current distributions

Inventing the Lisa Interface, by Frank Ludolph, Rod Perkins, Dan Smith

The archived webcast of Progress on the Frontiers: Technology and Progress with Doug Engelbart and Alan Kay (as a personal interest note I interviewed for a position with Dr. Engelbart's company when I was in Silicon valley, however Dr Engelbart felt I needed a few more decades of Smalltalk before touching his creations, remember Smalltalk has been around for a long long time)

A review of Linux of OS/390. Because I'm an old MVS/VTAM systems programmer I find this interesting

Do you have the Right Stuff


Remember SpaceWar? I think the quote from Alan Kay on the standard Computer Bum still holds today.

Where is that draft of the ANSI Smalltalk standard.