Recently
Dan Weinreb mentioned a paper about ObjectStore he co-authored with
Charles Lamb, Gordon Landis and Jack Orenstein in 1991. It's a bit hard
to find unless you have an ACM account. I've made it available
here.
Enjoy!
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- posted by
Olivier Drolet
- 12/13/2007 19:09:14
Is there a pdf version of this scan that does not suffer from the odd horizontal lines?
- posted by
Justin Grant
- 12/13/2007 23:27:31
Thanks for putting it up Lispmeister.
After reading Dan Weinreb's
posting
I
ordered
three OLPC XO notebooks.
I've met
Walter Bender
some years ago through a licensing deal with MIT Media Lab. He is now heading the OLPC
initiative. This is quite likely the most significant project since Tim Berners Lee's invention
of the WWW.
Some nice features of the XO-1:
- Comes with source code for all applications and most of the operating system.
There's even a View Source button on the keyboard that shows the code
of what's running.
- Based on Linux, but application code is in Python
- 1200x900 7.5" diagonal LCD that works without backlight in bright daylight
- Wireless networking capable of mesh mode
- 2- or 5-cell LiFePO4 battery pack
- Built in color camera
Links:
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- posted by
Hendrik
- 12/07/2007 05:21:37
Why buy if you can
download it?
As for the linked review: "The Give One Get One deal is only available for another 7 days. It may be hard to get them after that since they are going to be sold only to schools and other educational institutions and governments and in the third world." Estimated time until the first Thai kid offers theirs on eBay: 3.5 min. :)
Why - posted by
lispmeister
- 12/07/2007 11:49:20
Of course I can run the development environment on my Powerbook or workstation. But the intention is to give the three units ordered to my kids. As for the availability at ebay, that really misses the point. It's a global market, of course they'll be available somehow
