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Aucbvax.1928 fa.works utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!Newman.ES@PARC-MAXC Thu Jun 25 13:01:55 1981 Re: Star Info/Smalltalk Who were "the STAR people" that came to talk to you?

Smalltalk IS being released by PARC this summer. There was a big presentation on the subject at this year's NCC. Apple, DEC, HP and other companies are doing research into implementing it on their machines. (In fact, one of the primary Smalltalk implementors, Larry Tesler, is now at Apple and was one of the speakers at NCC.) A huge article on the subject will appear in the August issue of BYTE.

The deal is that PARC gives you an "image" file on a tape, whichcontains all of Smalltalk ready to run. To run it, you have to implement an interpreter on your machine for the 256 Smalltalk bytecodes. Just like you can run Pascal, if you have a P-code interpreter.

(I don't think anyone at Xerox will beat up on me for this message; all of it comes from strictly public sources.)

/Ron

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