Text File

Aucbvax.1905 fa.works utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!UOFILLINOIS@WPAFB-AFWAL Wed Jun 24 05:36:57 1981 Star Info The STAR people came here to talk today. Here's some facts/rumors that were new to me:

o Mesa will probably be released for the STAR either the 4th quarter of this year or the 2nd quarter of next year.

o Smalltalk "will NOT be released on the STAR or anywhere else" -- a "small outfit in Silicon Valley" (not PARC -- I'm not sure who they're talking about) licensed it to HP, TI, and Apple. When the STAR marketing people found out, they "put a stop to it"

o A personal computer called the "inch- worm" will apparently be announced soon. It is about book-sized, has a bitmapped display, and measures about an inch thick (hence the name). Could this be a first pass at the Dynabook?

o They won't sell just one STAR until next year

-geo

----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/

This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided:

1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles.

2. The following notice remains appended to each copy:

The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.