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

From: steve:shireman:maxonusa at: 25-Aug-2000 8:57

[petr--krenzelok--trz--cz] wrote:
> 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