[OT] Is there a relationship between Xtalk languages andsmalltalk?

[Kat]

Chipp Walters wrote:

> ....
>
> Someone was going to a lot of trouble to make sure 'multimedia' was 
> the next big thing. ....


At least one of those "someones" was (gasp, cough, choke) Bill Gates.  
Microsoft sponsored a really good tradeshow in San Jose called 
"InterMedia" that I attended in 1993.  It was all about multimedia, and 
the delivery/storage medium that was still pretty new then:  
CD-Recordable.  The first CD-R inkjet printer, built by Herb Craig, was 
being shown in the Trace Optical booth (it wasn't very practical since 
at that time printable media wasn't available), Delorme was displaying 
their "Street Atlas CD-ROM" (which I still use, one of only 2 Classic 
apps I hang onto), and Meridian Data Systems were in a shooting war with 
Young Minds Inc. over who could actually deliver systems to allow CD-R 
burning across a network.  Of course, YMI's stuff was UNIX-only, but ...

My theory all along has been that Microsoft liked CD-ROM so much because 
it allowed them to deliver bloatware....  but then I'm just prejudiced.

Cheers,
Kat
http://cd-info.com