14 Jul
2000
14 Jul
'00
1:05 a.m.
I've seen a document that described SmallTalk and thought it still looks
better than anything I've seen up to now; I think you're right about the
Star though, from what I remember of the Horn/Raskin discussion. I knew
Bruce Horn he was one of the SmallTalk developers though, dunno why I didn't
mention it.
cheers
-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Quebbeman [mailto:dhquebbeman@theestopinalgroup.com]
Sent: 14 July 2000 13:58
To: 'classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org'
Subject: RE: Another tech legend for discussion!
I have it on good authority that Smalltalk-80 was not ported
to the Star.
It was running on the Alto and the Dolphin at the time, as
well as another
Xerox workstation whose name I can't recall. Larry Teslar was
working at
PARC at the time, and ended up following Jobs back to Apple, because
Xerox couldn't get their asses in gear and Apple looked like it knew
what it was doing (w/r/t getting new technology out the door).
For those interested in what Smalltalk-80 feels like to play with, you
should try Squeak, a successor developed by some of Smalltalk-80's
authors, Alan Kay and Dan Ingalls, at Disney. Squeak is everything
ST80 was and more.
You can find info about Squeak at: http://www.create.ucsb.edu/squeak/