Back to the Future

The Internet is a cool place indeed. Where else would you find out that a bunch of ex Apple engineers, now working at Walt Disney Imagineering had developed and released (under a free software license) an implementation of Smalltalk-80, largely written in Smalltalk itself called Squeak. I've been fascinated by the concept of Smalltalk for most of my career though I've never really had the opportunity to play with a decent implementation on hardware that was capable enough to run it (the closest I came was running some implementation on MicroVAX when I worked at DEC). It's off to download we go...