Another tech legend for discussion! - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

14 Jul 2000

...
  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. 
Although I run Squeak under Windows and on a Power Mac, I still prefer
running the original Xerox Smalltalk-80 VI2.2 under System 6 on a Mac.
I have it on a IIci, but the IIci has a Radius Rocket in it, and the
virtual machine doesn't like its 68040. I have a Mac IIfx I'll be running
it on in the near future, at almost twice the speed of the IIci's '030.

I'll have to run the benchmarks, but I think it runs at 0.5 Dolphin.

-dq

...

 cheers

  -----Original Message-----
 From: Douglas Quebbeman [mailto:dhquebbeman@theestopinalgroup.com]
 Sent: 14 July 2000 13:58
 To: &#39;classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org&#39;
 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/