What's New

March 5, 1998

• A subtitle, "for Education and Entertainment", has been added to the home page. This reflects the current orientation of the project, and will be much more explicit on the next release of these pages.
• the graphics model page has been rewritten to better explain the adaptive rendering technology used in the project.
• the comparison page between Merlin Self and Sun Self 4.0 has been changed to reflect a redesign of the primitives.

December 13, 1997

• The technologies page has been rewritten and now includes the old page on uses of the Self language (which was eliminated)
• A page about the hardware design for Merlin 5 has been created, but doesn't have any links from the other pages yet

August 12, 1997

• The layout of the home page has been changed and made a little more colorful. 
• The tutorial has been expanded, though it is just a preview of future releases
• Acknowledgements from the home page and history page have been moved to their own page in order to provide enough space
• The plans pages has been considerably changed, with more of a marketing than technical emphasis
• Some of the future plans have also been detailed in the tinySelf pages, which also has more information about current releases and new graphs showing execution statistics
• A new page lists papers about Merlin (the old one just had Jecel's papers, inlucding many not related to Merlin)
• The list of Merlin pages has been reorganized and shortened
• The introduction to Merlin has been totally rewritten with the technologies part moved to a separate page

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see also: | new4 |  | faq |   | tutorial | | tiny |  

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