Be, OpenDoc, P & S and...

[Alain Farmer]

I rermember OpenDoc. It would have been revolutionary. And it was READY to go. I knew the guy at Apple Canada that was in charge of promoting it. He was profoundly disappointed when Apple dropped-the-ball; just as we were when HyperCard was steved. And so it was with many other promising R&D initiatives, before the Return of the King. I signed petition that stipulated that I would stop using any Apple product until they rescued HyperCard. They never did, and I never looked back. I am running Debian on PC-hardware. Bye bye!
Alain



On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 11:53:23 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
 


If anyone feels nostalgic enough for a download, fire up Virtual Box and 
have your own Be OS running now - courtesy of the open source version, 
Haiku:
<https://www.haiku-os.org/>


Lynn Fredricks wrote:

> ...like OpenDoc. Remember OpenDoc? Publish and subscribe...

...and Sk8, and ScriptX, and Dylan, and of course HyperCard.

As interesting as Swift is, given this long history I can't help but 
think we'll want to see some commitment from Apple over time before 
smart devs will commit everything they have to it.

Then again, the smart devs making money are mostly making cross-platform 
apps, where Swift can't help them (no doubt very much the point).

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World
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