[self-interest] Re: Self hardware

[Jason Karney]

I can borrow a PowerBook 3400 if that's recent enough... although if I'm really
nice, I can beg a G3 book...

So is there a good incentive for me to borrow one :-)

Jason

David Ungar wrote:

> Yes, HotSpot was an intellectual descendant of the Self VM work, and
> some of its
> key personnel were former Selfies.
>
> Jason, do you have access to a fairly recent Macintosh?
>
> - Dave
>
> At 10:08 AM -0700 8/2/99, riftweaver at hotmail.com wrote:
> >Yes, I think its cool too; I've not been able to do more than read
> >about Self, but having raided the old Sun site a few months ago, it
> >seems like a very clean and fun language. Also persused the old Merlin
> >stuff, and I am anxious to see what kind of system(s) you may produce.
> >
> >Dave -- didn't you end up working on Sun's "HotSpot" Java compiler?
> >
> >Jason Karney (jason at netgenics.com)
> >
> >> Cool!
> >>
> >> - Dave
> >>
> >> >Hi, friends!
> >> >
> >> >I've been without internet access for the past couple of weeks and
> >> >am only now catching up with my email, including the discussions
> >> >on this list.
> >> >
> >> >I thought you might be interested to know that I am typing this
> >> >from the offices of "Merlin Computer Technology", the first
> >> >company dedicated to producing hardware implementations of Self.
> >> >We hope to be selling our first product (Merlin 6) by the
> >> >Christmas season - I can post some details about it if there is
> >> >interest.
> >> >
> >> >That doesn't mean that I have forgotten about software
> >implemetantions
> >> >for PCs and such! They'll be coming along.
> >> >
> >> >This new company will soon have its own web site, and there will
> >> >also be a special web server written in Self called "Self Projects".
> >> >The pages for this site will be editable and there will be space
> >> >for all Self related projects.
> >> >
> >> >-- Jecel
> >> >
> >> >
> >
> >
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>      David Ungar
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