[HECnet] VAX/Smalltalk-80

[Nigel Williams]

See below for a link to a g-drive file containing a ZIP archive of the DEC research group implementation of Smalltalk for the VAX.

If someone has a VT125 to try it on I would appreciate seeing an image of the screen with Smalltalk running.

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> From: Nigel Williams <nw at retroComputingTasmania.com>
> Date: 7 April 2020 at 10:33:55 pm AEST
> To: John Ames <commodorejohn at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re:  VAX/Smalltalk-80?
> 
> 
>> 
>>>> On 2 Apr 2020, at 10:08 am, John Ames via cctech <cctech at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>> I know from the book "Smalltalk-80: Bits of History, Words of Advice"
>> 
>> Thanks for the reminder about the VMS version, as you likely know
>> their paper about VAX Smalltalk was in an early DEC Technical Journal
>> too.
>> 
>> ...while the second ran under VMS and was actually developed
>> within DEC. This version - VAX/Smalltalk-80 - was headed up by Stoney
>> Ballard and Stephen Shirron; anybody know if there's a surviving copy
>> out there, if it was ever available outside DEC to begin with?
> 
> I contacted Stephen and he kindly provided a ZIP
> 
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1NvO-ULropJ9xyT-WFqalXY79FBt6tdfB
> 
> I had a quick look and it will need an early VMS I suspect, around
> version 4.x (might work on a later version).
> 
> cheers,
> nigel.
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