Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!houxz!hocda!spanky!burl!duke!mcnc!ncsu!msdc!gatech!wilkes From: wilkes@gatech.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang.st80 Subject: Smalltalk-80 Licenses Message-ID: <164@gatech.UUCP> Date: Mon, 23-May-83 14:19:26 EDT Article-I.D.: gatech.164 Posted: Mon May 23 14:19:26 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Jun-83 00:09:49 EDT Lines: 36 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 wilkes.gatech@UDel-Relay (ARPANet) wilkes@gatech (CSNet) ...!allegra!gatech!wilkes (UUCP/mail) ...!decvax!duke!mcnc!msdc!gatech!wilkes (UUCP/mail/news)