Hi Dave --

An interesting question. The story of Smalltalk-72 is in "The Early 
History of Smalltalk" that I wrote for the ACM almost 10 years ago. I 
have a .pdf of this which I will post in a swiki if someone will give 
me URL of a good place to stash it.

Then I'll answer your question.

Cheers,

Alan

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At 1:34 PM -0800 2/17/02, David Simmons wrote:
>Alan,
>
>Why was the Smalltalk-72 form abandoned/changed to create Smalltalk-80?
>
>I just looked over the manual and it was fascinating. It looks like a
>hybrid between scheme and half-a-dozen scripting languages that showed
>up between the late-80's and early-90's.
>
>Smalltalk-72 might well have been a very popular scripting language for
>the internet 90's era.
>
>-- Dave S. [SmallScript Corp]
>
>SmallScript for the AOS & .NET Platforms
>David.Simmons at SmallScript.com | http://www.smallscript.org
>
>
>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-dev-
>>  admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Bijan Parsia
>>  Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 10:17 AM
>>  To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>>  Subject: re: threads
>>
>>  On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Helge Horch wrote:
>>
>>  > At 23:57 15.02.2002 -0500, Bijan Parsia wrote:
>>  > >That being said, I don't quite get all of the Smalltalk-72 model,
>>  though
>>  > >I'm diligently (for me) perusing the manual :)
>>  >
>>  > Ah!, you mean the one at
>>  > <http://www.spies.com/~aek/pdf/xerox/alto/Smalltalk72_Manual.pdf>?
>>
>>  Yes indeed, thanks to whomever put that up. I guess I should pop the
>link
>>  into the swiki.
>>
>>  Cheers,
>>  Bijan Parsia.
>>


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