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From: carlg@world.std.com (Carl E Gundel)
Subject: Re: What is ST80?
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Ian Chai (chai@chip.cs.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: Gilbert Banks <gilbertb@bnr.ca> writes:
: >I am learning SmallTalk ... what is ST80?

: It's a dialect of SmallTalk. ParcPlace uses it.

ST-80 (or Smalltalk-80) is the originally published spec for Smalltalk.  
There were several earlier versions (ST-72, ST-76, more?) but they were 
not made public.  Newer versions of ParcPlace Smalltalk are not really 
ST-80, but something refined and updated (and designed to run inside a 
host operating system instead of owning the whole machine).

Carl
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