> 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_at_theestopinalgroup.com]
> > Sent: 14 July 2000 13:58
> > To: 'classiccmp_at_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/
Received on Fri Jul 14 2000 - 08:57:32 BST