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The "Not Quite Amiga but still computer related category" => Alternative Operating Systems => Topic started by: Floid on May 02, 2003, 06:28:23 AM

Title: For those who are into such things...
Post by: Floid on May 02, 2003, 06:28:23 AM

Croquet (http://www.opencroquet.org/) is a 3D, GL-accellerated collaboration environment built to run under the Squeak (http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/) Smalltalk VM.

It "was built to answer a simple question. If we were to create a new operating system and user interface knowing what we know today, how far could we go. What kinds of decisions would we make that we might have been unable to even consider 20 or 30 years ago, when the current set of operating systems were first created."

To view screenshots, you'll need the ability to view the documentation PDF (http://glab.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~croquet/downloads/Croquet0.1.pdf).

Not my cuppa, but everyone else seems to want to play Quake with their spreadsheets.  Props to 'RG' for the link.

Title: Re: For those who are into such things...
Post by: filson on May 02, 2003, 09:52:57 AM

this is wickedly kewl! smalltalk/squeak is a very nice problem oriented language.

Title: Re: For those who are into such things...
Post by: minator on May 02, 2003, 03:38:27 PM

I was doing some "blue sky" thinking a while back and was looking at this, I didn't look in any detail but it appears to be one of the better 3D GUIs out there.

Most just seem to try to display files and given the number of files present in any modern OS they present pretty much useless GUIs.