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From: wilkes@gatech.UUCP
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Subject: Smalltalk-80 Licenses
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Date: Mon, 23-May-83 14:19:26 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 23 14:19:26 1983
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As announced in the June 6 issue of "Infoworld," Xerox is
now offering licenses for Smalltalk-80.  These licenses will
be made available to universities for $400 and to commercial
concerns to the tune of $20,000.  The licensee will be entitled
to implement the virtual machine as described in the book
(Goldberg and Robson, "Smalltalk-80: The Language and Its
Implementation") and thus be able to use the tape of the standard
system...

Some of us at Georgia Tech are thinking about implementing the
virtual machine on a VAX 11/780 in Pascal and then porting the
Pascal code to a network of (Three Rivers) Perqs (which have a
p-code-like microcode interpreter for Pascal).  We would appreciate
any information about other planned implementations in Pascal before
starting this project.

Speaking of "The Book," the same "Infoworld" article noted that
the first printing had sold out, and that a second printing is
in the works.  I noticed a couple of copies at the local
B. Dalton's bookstore affiliate, however.  (Smalltalk implementation
for the masses?)   Also, a representative of Addison-Wesley at
the Spring COMDEX told me that we can expect the next three
books towards the middle of the summer:
"Smalltalk-80: The Interactive Programming Environment" (A-W #11372-4),
"Smalltalk-80: Creating a User Interface and Graphical Applications"
(A-W #11370-8), and "Smalltalk-80: Bits of History, Words of Advice"
(A-W #11669-3).

       -- Tom Wilkes

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