30 Mar
2006
30 Mar
'06
7:06 a.m.
"Dan" == Dan Ingalls Dan@SqueakLand.org writes:
Dan> The original source wasn't in C. It was Nova assembler plus microcode Dan> for various Xerox processors. However there's one in Smalltalk in the Dan> blue book. And the Squeak VM is very close, except for its object memory Dan> which is much nicer. I do have this Squeak version of Hobbes that runs Dan> it, but it's not as simple as you might hope.
Dan> I think a couple of folks wrote interpreters in C for that image, so you Dan> might still find one. I'd ask on comp.lang.smalltalk. I think Stoney Dan> Ballard's was in C, but he changed the object memory too.
Wasn't the version on the Tek Magnolia in C?
That's the one I ran ST80 with, for a few months until I left to get a real job.
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