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> I'm one of the people who did that port of the ParcPlace Smalltalk  
> "PS" virtual machine (which was a JIT written in 68K assembly code,  
> the precursor of the current VisualWorks engine). Another one  
> you'll probably recognize is Michael Rüger...
> The Atari port was really nice - we had one of the few 4160ST  
> machines (it was before the MegaST4 came out) and a big monitor  
> (don't remember the name). Since there was no truly usable compiler  
> environment, we set up a cross-compiling system where we compiled  
> on a PCS (german UNIX workstation), linked with a crude libc which  
> interfaced to TOS, and transferred the resulting executable via  
> ZModem to the Atari :-)
> One colleague of mine (Adreas Tönne) did some MIDI sequencing with  
> Smalltalk on an Atari, and we even got a version of The Analyst  
> running - in 4MBytes!
> For printing, we provided primitives to interface to the Atari  
> laser printer which had just a high-speed memory interface but no  
> memory of its own. We converted the TeX fonts at 300dpi into  
> StrikeFonts and just used the normal CharacterScanner rendering  
> mechanism to fill a page form, and then called the prim to output it.
> The Atari had about 25-28% Dorado, which isn't exactly speedy but  
> was enough to get a number of things going. Considering its price  
> and the fact that Georg was able to convince ParcPlace that there  
> would be a market for a 400DM student license, this was one of the  
> first truly affordable Smalltalk machines for home users.

Thanks very much for your information.
I am truly an Atari fan...

I met Georg several times but I did not know he was involved in such  
project. Next time, I will not miss such occasion to ask questions :-)

Best Regards,
Alexandre

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