9 Oct
2015
9 Oct
'15
6:57 p.m.
A mix of Smalltalk luminaries have resurrected Smalltalk-78 (a port of
Smalltalk-76 to an early 8086 prototype luggable called NoteTaker
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/xerox/notetaker/) and it runs
in a modern web-browser using Javascript (even runs on an iPad but
will need changes to support touch).
http://lively-web.org/users/bert/Smalltalk-78.html
PDF describing what they did here:
http://www.freudenbergs.de/bert/publications/Ingalls-2014-Smalltalk78.pdf
According to this document there is yet to be published Java implementation too.
A 35-minute video presentation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTh65b8qSY8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3t13RHO3X8
Smalltalk-78 compliments the Smalltalk-72 Alto emulator from Dan
Ingalls released in 2013, although the link I found doesn't seem to
work anymore:
http://lively-web.org/users/Dan/ALTO-Smalltalk-72.html.
It almost works, but the display is messed up on Safari/Chrome.