Re: OT: Windows on Linux history [was Re: OT: Anyone try Corel

[Gustav Schaffter]

Dave,

Very interesting. Makes me think of NextStep. Wasn't that built with the
same idea? Extending existing classes on the fly?

Regards
Gustav

Dave Ihnat wrote:
> 
> Gustav Schaffter wrote:
> 
> > Do you consider SmallTalk being an OS?
> 
> As you'd see it today,no.  But it seems I recall someone from Xerox Parc
> coming to Bell Labs around 1981 to talk about their new Star 8010,
> and stressing the fact that they'd designed SmallTalk to be an integrated
> environment.  You could write code, and have it immediately incorporated
> in the running OS.  I believe he referred to the "SmallTalk operating
> environment", and I don't recall his ever referring to the OS in any other
> way.
> 
> Cheers,
> --
>         Dave Ihnat
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