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WorkS Digest V1 #30
>From JSol@RUTGERS Tue Nov  3 23:20:40 1981
WorkS Digest          Wednesday, 4 Nov 1981        Volume 1 : Issue 30

Today's Topics:  Programming for Personal WorkStations
		    Smalltalk Info - BYTE Magazine
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Date:  3 Nov 1981 (Tuesday) 0910-EDT
From: DREIFU at WHARTON-10 (Henry Dreifus)
Subject: Programming for Personal Workstations

Are the techniques that will be used for programming personal
workstations going to be different to those of current  scale
implementations?

How will one program workstations? Will it be easier? Will there
be other proceedures than those of large systems or simply a
reduced scale of large system design? 

Hank

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Date:  3 Nov 1981 (Tuesday) 2058-EST
From: KENDALL at HARV-10
Subject: Smalltalk info source, 432/Smalltalk juxtaposition
To:   mike.bmd70 at BRL-, WorkS at RUTGER-
cc:   KENDALL

The excellent August (July?) issue of \Byte\ was dedicated to Smalltalk,
written completely by members of the Smalltalk development group.  This
is the best source of information about Smalltalk until the two books
come out.

If I remember correctly from that issue, the old Smalltalk virtual
memory system (called OOZE) allowed as many as 64K objects, but that
limit was reached, so the new system allows more than 64K objects.
This means that the Intel iAPX [what do those letters stand for?] 432,
which allows no more than 64K objects, would make a bad Smalltalk
engine.

				-- Sam Kendall

[Thanks also to Ian H. <MERRITT USC-ISIB AT>, <TONYWEST AT PARC-MAXC>,
Steve Bellovin, Ed Pattermann <G.ECP AT UTEXAS-20>, Chris <RYLAND SRI-KL AT>, Jeff Prothero <JSP WASHINGTON AT>, Ron Fowler <RGF AT BRL>,
<STERNLIGHT AT USC-ECL>, Hank Walker at CMU-10A and Bob <HYMAN AT DEC-MARLBORO> for also pointing to the BYTE issue. -JSOL]

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