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From: Benoit Desrosiers <desrosie>
Subject: Distributed Smalltalk
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In a recent series of messages, I saw that someone wanted to have a subclass of
Nil. In the answers to this question, the most common use of it was to do a
Proxy for a distributed system. In our research group, we came to the same
solution about 2 months ago because we have a parallel computer and we want to
be able to program in smalltalk all the way. So, my question is: is there a
library for distributed Smalltalk? And if yes, is it available on internet?

thanks,
Benoit.

BTW we plan on using GNU smalltalk on our parallel computer because we need to
have the source code to recompile on the I860. Right now, we already have been
able to recompile GNU ST on the i860 and we are in the process on incorporating
the message passing library functions in it to be able to (small) talk to the
outside world. If somebody needs GNU ST version 1.1 for a little Endian
processor with negative pointers without support from Unix, just call us, we
have it ;-)

