Hi John,

> 
> >     When was Smalltalk really invented?
> >
> >     Was it in 1972 or 1976 or 1980?
> >
> >     Did Squeak Central insist on creating things that are worse than
> >     Smalltalk-72 and the crowd assumed that it is automatically better
> >     than something "old" like Smalltalk-72?
> >
> >     For that matter, did the commercial Smalltalk vendors insist
> >     likewise?
> 
> A couple of 'scholarly' notes here.
> 
> First, there is a good "later" history of Smalltalk, which decently
> complements Alan's EHoST, by Adele Goldberg. Here's a citation:
> 
>    Goldberg, A. (1998). The Community of Smalltalk. In P. H. Salus
> (Ed.), Handbook of
>             Programming Languages, Volume 1: Object-Oriented
> Programming Languages
>             (pp. 51-94). New York: MacMillan.
> 
> To my knowledge, this isn't online anywhere, but Peter Salus'
> Handbook series are big comprehensive tomes that should be available
> at any decent library.
> 

	Thanks for the tips. I will try to locate these pages.

> Second, just to respond to the recent historical interest on this
> list, I am currently completing my
> PhD dissertation (in education) on the history of the Dynabook/
> Smalltalk/Squeak project, which *should* (God and everyone else
> willing) be complete - and online - this summer or early fall; it is
> currently caught up in the academic machinery of committees and
> defences, etc. Hopefully that isn't a too much of a tease... stay tuned.
> 
> 

	Best wishes,

	PhiHo