What's new on September 1, 1995

Wow! It has been a long time since the last update, but we have a lot of changes in this third release:

• The home page was edited to make this "what's new" reference easier to find. More images have been added to make navigation easier. As the link to/from LSI-USP is not very fast, this might be a problem for some people. Using a newer browser ( like Netscape ) can help, or you might want to turn off the loading of images. Actually, these images are still quite modest compared to many pages on the web.
• An introduction to the project is now available. Many pages that were previously under "technical specifications" have been moved here.
• Merlin's runtime environment is now described in some detail.
• The pages have now been logically grouped in a tree structure, and the generation of the navigational aids at the bottom of each page has been automated. This was done with a Makefile which calls file conv.m4 ( you must "view source" to see this file, otherwise it is just a big mess ) when it needs to update a .html file.
• a tutorial for the Self language is being created
• a Tiny Self implementation is described
• an icon indicating stuff has been added to make it easier to tell what has been added in the last revision. This page is still useful for finding out what has only been changed, however.
• the papers page now has a few unpublished papers that people might want to read
• a html English translation of the Why Objects? paper is now available.
• Jecel's home page now points to the bookmarks file used by Netscape through a symbolic link, so it always reflects the most recent changes to the list of favorite pages.
• the old explanation about why the Merlin project includes hardware has been moved to a new Frequently Asked Questions page.
• some pages that are not quite there yet are now marked as coming rather than new . That means that the future plans page now refers only to the project as the plans for these pages can be seen by looking at the pages themselves.
• the Museum was reorganized as a timeline using the new table

see also:
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