7 Apr
2020
7 Apr
'20
2:45 p.m.
See below for a link to a g-drive file containing a ZIP archive of the DEC research group
implementation of Smalltalk for the VAX.
If someone has a VT125 to try it on I would appreciate seeing an image of the screen with
Smalltalk running.
Begin forwarded message:
From: Nigel Williams <nw at
retroComputingTasmania.com>
Date: 7 April 2020 at 10:33:55 pm AEST
To: John Ames <commodorejohn at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: VAX/Smalltalk-80?
?
Thanks for the reminder about the VMS version, as you likely know
their paper about VAX Smalltalk was in an early DEC Technical Journal
too.
...while the second ran under VMS and was actually developed
within DEC. This version - VAX/Smalltalk-80 - was headed up by Stoney
Ballard and Stephen Shirron; anybody know if there's a surviving copy
out there, if it was ever available outside DEC to begin with?
I contacted Stephen and he kindly provided a ZIP
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1NvO-ULropJ9xyT-WFqalXY79FBt6tdfB
I had a quick look and it will need an early VMS I suspect, around
version 4.x (might work on a later version).
cheers,
nigel.
On 2 Apr
2020, at 10:08 am, John Ames via cctech <cctech at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I
know from the book "Smalltalk-80: Bits of History, Words of Advice"