5 Jul
2012
5 Jul
'12
1:31 p.m.
> I played with a pre-release Lisa (being used to
develp Berkeley
> Smalltalk); I never touched on after that.
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote:
That is very interesting! I am rather familiar with
the history of
Smalltalk and was not aware of any connection between Apple the
Berkeley. I had read that the Berkeley students had been given a copy of
the HP Smalltalk to study and then developed their own version for the
VAX and, later, for Sun workstations.
I don't have much of any details, but I can point you where to find out.
My cousin, David Ungar, was involved in it, and in "Smalltalk on a Risc",
while he was getting his PhD at berkeley. One time, when I visited him in
Evans hall, they had a Lisa (with hard disk!, and twiggy drive (with the
double set of access holes in the floppy to make it easier to put
thumbprints on the media)).
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