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Aucbvax.4945 fa.works utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!works Tue Nov 3 23:32:19 1981 WorkS Digest V1 #30 >From JSol@RUTGERS Tue Nov 3 23:20:40 1981 WorkS Digest Wednesday, 4 Nov 1981 Volume 1 : Issue 30

Today's Topics: Programming for Personal WorkStations Smalltalk Info - BYTE Magazine ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: 3 Nov 1981 (Tuesday) 0910-EDT From: DREIFU at WHARTON-10 (Henry Dreifus) Subject: Programming for Personal Workstations

Are the techniques that will be used for programming personal workstations going to be different to those of current scale implementations?

How will one program workstations? Will it be easier? Will there be other proceedures than those of large systems or simply a reduced scale of large system design?

Hank

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Date: 3 Nov 1981 (Tuesday) 2058-EST From: KENDALL at HARV-10 Subject: Smalltalk info source, 432/Smalltalk juxtaposition To: mike.bmd70 at BRL-, WorkS at RUTGER- cc: KENDALL

The excellent August (July?) issue of \Byte\ was dedicated to Smalltalk, written completely by members of the Smalltalk development group. This is the best source of information about Smalltalk until the two books come out.

If I remember correctly from that issue, the old Smalltalk virtual memory system (called OOZE) allowed as many as 64K objects, but that limit was reached, so the new system allows more than 64K objects. This means that the Intel iAPX [what do those letters stand for?] 432, which allows no more than 64K objects, would make a bad Smalltalk engine.

-- Sam Kendall

[Thanks also to Ian H. <MERRITT USC-ISIB AT>, <TONYWEST AT PARC-MAXC>, Steve Bellovin, Ed Pattermann <G.ECP AT UTEXAS-20>, Chris <RYLAND SRI-KL AT>, Jeff Prothero <JSP WASHINGTON AT>, Ron Fowler <RGF AT BRL>, <STERNLIGHT AT USC-ECL>, Hank Walker at CMU-10A and Bob <HYMAN AT DEC-MARLBORO> for also pointing to the BYTE issue. -JSOL]

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