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Re:Notes by Andy Hertzfeld on Alan Kay's talk at Creative Th... by paganel on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @02:21AM (#23983945)
It was also because MS and Intel sabotaged it. OLPC probably would have never worked anyway but the actions taken by the two companies left a very sour taste for me. Also, the “right-click any program in order to see its source-code” was an idea many generations ahead of its time, one that I’m afraid we won’t ever get to see, actually.
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Re:Notes by Andy Hertzfeld on Alan Kay's talk at Creative Th... by renox on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @08:59AM (#23986128)
Partly due to Alan Kay's STEPS project failure to release meaningful code sources, you're right.. Frank ( https://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2012001_steps.pdf ) would have had A LOT of interested developer/user if they had released the code.
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Re:Notes by Andy Hertzfeld on Alan Kay's talk at Creative Th... by jecel on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @01:45PM (#23989557)
It is not easy to find and even harder to actually use, but here are the sources:

http://tinlizzie.org/dbjr/

I also was sent a frank.image that runs on Squeak and uses these files but don't know where that can be found.

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Re:Notes by Andy Hertzfeld on Alan Kay's talk at Creative Th... by renox on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @04:21PM (#23991150)
Thanks for the link! If you're able to find the image I'm interested, please PM me.
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Re:Notes by Andy Hertzfeld on Alan Kay's talk at Creative Th... by jonjacky on Thursday July 30, 2020 @05:54PM (#24003270)
The aftermath of the STEPS project and its code is discussed in this thread by one of the STEPS authors/developers and others:

https://github.com/damelang/nile/issues/3

This HN post has links to many of the STEPS artifacts and their successors:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19844088

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