On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 10:18:52AM -0400, PhiHo Hoang wrote:
> Hi Alan,
> 
>     Thanks for the info. Frankly (and shame on me), I have not read the
> papers you mentioned.
> 
>     Please post a pointer when you have it. Maybe many others did not have a
> chance to read them either.
> 
>     It would be fun to look at the first VM, the first compiler and the
> first image.
> 

It's allready there:  http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/989

"Dan Ingalls did an emulation of the Smalltalk-72 emulator for Alan Kay's
 birthday. You can find it at ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/pub/Smalltalk/Squeak/goodies/Smalltalk-72/.
"
Other interesting stuff:

 The Smalltalk-72 Instruction Manual (March 76)
 http://www.spies.com/~aek/pdf/xerox/alto/Smalltalk72_Manual.pdf

The Early History of Smalltalk
Tttp://www.metaobject.com/papers/SmallHistory.pdf

Jerry Bell scanned the the original "Personal Dynamic Media"
report: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2002-April/012060.html

download at:  http://67.32.22.226/pdm.pdf


        Marcus

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