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From: carlg@world.std.com (Carl E Gundel)
Subject: Re: NEXT Smalltalk
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Allen Wirfs-Brock (Allen_Wirfs-Brock@acm.org) wrote:
: The bottom line is that the Alto (around 1973) and its successors were
: designed to support micro coded implementations of Smalltalk (and other
: languages). The "VM" was the Smalltalk instruction set architecture for
: these machines. It wasn't until the late 70's/early 80's that people at
: Xerox and other companies tried to implement pure software emulations
: of the VM on "stock" hardware. At first the results were not very good.

Thanks.  Now you've given me the itch to dig a little more.  :)

Carl

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