[HECnet] VAX/Smalltalk-80

[mark at wickensonline.co.uk]

Wow!

Thank you for this! Not only is Smalltalk interesting in itself, but this an excellent example of VAX Macro-32 too!
I will attempt to assemble + compile the application.
It looks like it is using VS II user interface libraries. That will be the first hurdle to compile it on a machine with the appropriate library and graphics - I'm thinking here maybe on of Matt's graphical versions of SIMH?

Thanks, Mark.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE <owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE> On Behalf Of John H. Reinhardt
Sent: 07 April 2020 15:15
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] VAX/Smalltalk-80

On 4/7/2020 7:45 AM, Nigel Williams wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> *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.

Very cool.  I have the three (?) popular books about smalltalk-80 from the 80's. I'll have to dig them out along with the DEC Tech Journal (If I have it).

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John H. Reinhardt