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From: hasko@heeg.de (Hasko Heinecke)
Subject: Re: Supercomputer Smalltalk?
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John Sellers (sellers@sellers.com) wrote:

: In article <1995May30.185507.19014@alw.nih.gov>, 
: <johnk@spasm.niddk.nih.gov> writes:
: > Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
: > ...
: > I recall a post on comp.lang.smalltalk a year ago regarding
: > availability of a Smalltalk system for Cray-style 
: supercomputers.
: > ...

: Here is some wishful thinking:

:  Georg Heeg in Germany supposedly has a version of Smalltalk 
: that is MIPS ABI Compliant.  This means in principle that it 
: may run (but probably not tried) on most of SGI machines up 
: through the Challenge XL.  

: The MIPS ABI Compliant software is supposed to run on IRIX 5.2.

: The SGI/MIPS POWER CHALLENGE XL runs on 64 bit IRIX 6.0.  
: Wouldn't it be nice if Smalltalk ran on the Power Challenge XL? 
: (don't hold your breath...sigh)

: Following is a description of the Power Challenge XL.

[deleted]

You are right, we have a MIPS ABI compliant version of VisualWorks 2.0.
It runs on SNI, NEC, and SGI machines. However, it does not run on the
Power Challenge family. We are currently investigating the problem, it's
not yet quite clear if the different processor (R8000) causes the
problem or if there's something we haven't yet thought of.

VisualWorks runs fine on all other MIPS machines tested so far.

Hasko

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