[REBOL] Multimedia quality (was) One disk OS + REBOL Re:(7)

[steve . shireman]

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> Yes, I know - as Dave Haynie said - he left mainly because Scala got too
> much tied to Windows. It uses DirectX IIRC. But do you remember those
> glory days of Amiga and its chipset? Scala running very very smoothly on
> such underpowered (by today standards) piece of hw. And what? Was it
> bigger than 500 kb? And scala presentation was just script.

The script was a 'dialect' called Lingua
It is the best practical example of what a 'dialect' is that I can think
of.

> And it had
> network capabilities too.

Ahh, but not nearly as cool as Rebol's...


Hey, with serial: support, it is possible to make a platform-independent
dongle for high-value products...

Steve Shireman

(maybe Steven Wright knew lisp...)

"...when I talk and sometimes you can't here me, it is because sometimes
I am in parentheses..." Steven Wright