At 05:08 PM 2/14/02 -0800, Mike O'Brien wrote:
>         L. Peter Deutsch knew this when he wrote the "just-in-time"
>native code method compilation stuff for ParcPlace Smalltalk.


To be historically accurate, Peter (and others) wrote the JIT-based 
Smalltalk at Xerox PARC, _not_ ParcPlace Systems. That virtual machine was 
running well in 1984 (it was the only Smalltalk used at the Portland branch 
of PARC). ParcPlace was founded in 1988. In the early days, Peter worked 
with Alan Schiffman on the translating VM. Later on, Peter worked with Mark 
Roberts.

You are correct that Peter (among others) knew about the Berkeley work of 
Ungar, Blau,and many others -- they were frequent visitors to the lab and 
were given access to the Smalltalk-80 system by PARC.