Re: Alan Kay: The Early History of Smalltalk

From: Universe (universe_at_covad.net)
Date: 10/21/03 

Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:12:09 -0400

"M. Roberts" <mroberts@cincom.com> wrote in message
news:5b70f568.0310201339.de7ed00@posting.google.com...
> Thomas,
>
> Thanks for taking the trouble to scan this article. It's worth having
> a 'fresh' copy available in HTML (especially once all the errors have
> been corrected ;-).
>
> One comment: I notice none of the pictures in the article -- and there
> were quite a few -- have been reproduced. I assume this is because the
> quality of the illustrations is too poor in the PDF, but I'm wondering
> if these are any better in the Proceedings of HOPL (History Of
> Programming Languages 2) book, and could be scanned from there.
>
> Cheers,
>
> M

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