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From: charles.herrick@amd.com
Subject: ParcPlace Image knows how to start itself
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 20:54:55 GMT
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Wow. 

I just found out that if you make a ParcPlace Smalltalk
image executable, and then invoke it on the commandline,
it tells the OS to run "st80VM" with itself as the
command argument.

How did they do that? Inquiring (temporarily speechless) minds want to know!
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