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From: andrew@cee.hw.ac.uk (Andrew Dinn)
Subject: Re: What has become of the Xerox Star?
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Daris Nevil (dnevil@cpdsc.com) wrote:
: I am also interested in the Star, the Alto, and the Dorado, or any
: of the other systems from Xerox than ran Smalltalk.  I would like to
: obtain one of these machines.  Would like to hear from anyone that
: would like to donate one for a good cause (curiosity) ;-).  It would
: be well taken care of.

If you ever ran Smalltalk on an 1186 (let alone an 1108, Dolphin?,
Star or Alto) you would forget it and stick to the Unix or PC version.
Smalltalk-80 on these newer boxes is virtually identical to the 1186
version, the only serious difference being the salient one between
treacle and water. The most annoying difference is the windows greying
over when they get backgrounded, leaving a rectilinear mush of grey
sludge behind your active window.

I suppose Smalltalk-80 on a Dorado might perform at half the speed of
a Sun, although I don't know if anyone ever bothered to microcode
Smalltalk for the Dorado? And the Dolphin?


Andrew Dinn
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