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From: rfenney@directnet.com (Robert J. Fenney)
Subject: Re: Smalltalk and the Internet
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Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 08:44:23 GMT
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In article <48du8g$stp@ixnews6.ix.netcom.com>, novacasa@ix.netcom.com
(Carlos A. Casanova) wrote:

> curt@to.mobil.com (Curt Welch - RDR) wrote:
> 
> >In comp.lang.smalltalk, jwhitney@crl.com (John Whitney) writes:
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> 
> >>It is also interesting to note that
> >>Smalltalk VMs are being burned onto EPROM chips and used within
> >>hardware applications by many companies.  It would seem very natural
> >>for Smalltalk to be used as the base for distributed Web objects.
> 
> >The other big missing piece in Smalltalk is the concept of libraries.
> >I'm famillar with VW 1, and not other versions of Smalltalk - so I could
> >be off here.  But, VW expects all the Smalltalk object to be in one
> >image.  It doesn't support the concept of shared libraries of Object.
> 
> >A full Smalltalk Image is too large to load over the net.  Somehow,
> >code needs to be shared so it either only needs to be loaded once.
> >And the standard classes can come from the local machine.  Smalltalk
> >doesn't support this.
> 
> Your correct as of right now about all classes being contained in a
> single image but that is changing.   There is atleast one Smalltalk
> vendor that I know of that has announced that their next release Q1
> 96' will provide the ability to use a base image for the environment
> with smaller images running the application.  I am not positive of
> what the underlieing architecture/communication is.
> 
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> 
> Carlos
> 
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> Carlos A. Casanova
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QKS has modules and PIPO's which implement the concept on transportable
libraries in their SmalltalkAgents product today.

Robert
