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Aucbvax.1930 fa.works utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!Deutsch@PARC-MAXC Thu Jun 25 13:09:33 1981 Re: Star Info I would like to correct some erroneous information about Smalltalk and the Star.

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"

The truth is that LRG, a group within PARC, has licensed Smalltalk-80 (the only Xerox-authorized version of Smalltalk to be released) to a number of micro- and mini-computer manufacturers. The release consists of detailed specifications for the machine-dependent kernel, plus a mag tape containing the rest of the system (windows, editor, compiler, file system, etc., etc.) Several of these manufacturers have made excellent progress on implementing the system, to the point of having windows appear on their displays. I can't comment on the specific list of manufacturers, since we prefer to let them make their own announcements. The Star marketing people have not exerted any pressure in either direction with respect to this; the release/license process was properly cleared with our legal department and all relevant product organizations within Xerox, and we are currently working out ways to license the system to manufacturers (and universities) beyond the original group. I can't comment on the availability of Smalltalk for the Star, except to say that the Star hardware is definitely powerful enough to support Smalltalk.

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