A long time ago in a galaxy far away, there was a Smalltalk application called... The Analyst.
There is a movie intro (I feel like it must have been posted by Yoshiki but can't find any evidence right now) at https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2r8HZ9OGhszUmtoaHg0QklKVDg/view?pref=2&...
There is a copy of a working ancient 16bit image - and a load of other useful info, including a 16 bit VM - at https://github.com/devhawala/ST80 Seems like it might make an interesting project to extract the ideas and re-implement.
tim -- tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim Strange OpCodes: QVC: Question Valid Command
On 2022-08-11 17:44, tim Rowledge wrote:
A long time ago in a galaxy far away, there was a Smalltalk application called... The Analyst.
There is a movie intro (I feel like it must have been posted by Yoshiki but can't find any evidence right now) at https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2r8HZ9OGhszUmtoaHg0QklKVDg/view?pref=2&...
There is a copy of a working ancient 16bit image - and a load of other useful info, including a 16 bit VM - at https://github.com/devhawala/ST80 Seems like it might make an interesting project to extract the ideas and re-implement.
In line with this... I've been loading all the Smalltalk code from Xanadu/Udanax Gold into Squeak since about Feb '21. Some tests are passing. Maybe I'll present at Argentina '22. :)
http://udanax.xanadu.com/gold/index.html
"At the time we originally built Udanax Gold, there were no decent object platforms for delivering large object-oriented servers. There was not even any one workable choice of language! Smalltalk was a great development language, but the only decent Smalltalk platform at the time -- the one from ParcPlace -- had a fatal runtime license fee. C++ was a plausible delivery platform, but had no decent programming environments. So we developed in Smalltalk and automatically translated to C++.
There were no available adequate persistent object systems, distributed object-message systems, or incremental-generation collectors suitable for running a server. All this we built ourselves."
Tim J
I read a blog about semantic web yesterday: https://github.com/GavinMendelGleason/blog/blob/main/entries/semantic_future...
Best, Karl
On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 3:58 AM Tim Johnson digit@sonic.net wrote:
On 2022-08-11 17:44, tim Rowledge wrote:
A long time ago in a galaxy far away, there was a Smalltalk application called... The Analyst.
There is a movie intro (I feel like it must have been posted by Yoshiki but can't find any evidence right now) at
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2r8HZ9OGhszUmtoaHg0QklKVDg/view?pref=2&...
There is a copy of a working ancient 16bit image - and a load of other useful info, including a 16 bit VM - at https://github.com/devhawala/ST80 Seems like it might make an interesting project to extract the ideas and re-implement.
In line with this... I've been loading all the Smalltalk code from Xanadu/Udanax Gold into Squeak since about Feb '21. Some tests are passing. Maybe I'll present at Argentina '22. :)
http://udanax.xanadu.com/gold/index.html
"At the time we originally built Udanax Gold, there were no decent object platforms for delivering large object-oriented servers. There was not even any one workable choice of language! Smalltalk was a great development language, but the only decent Smalltalk platform at the time -- the one from ParcPlace -- had a fatal runtime license fee. C++ was a plausible delivery platform, but had no decent programming environments. So we developed in Smalltalk and automatically translated to C++.
There were no available adequate persistent object systems, distributed object-message systems, or incremental-generation collectors suitable for running a server. All this we built ourselves."
Tim J
This video was not from the VPRI archive (i.e. me), and I had not seen this before. Thanks! It'd be really good to have a working version of Analyst!
On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 5:44 PM tim Rowledge tim@rowledge.org wrote:
A long time ago in a galaxy far away, there was a Smalltalk application called... The Analyst.
There is a movie intro (I feel like it must have been posted by Yoshiki but can't find any evidence right now) at https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2r8HZ9OGhszUmtoaHg0QklKVDg/view?pref=2&...
There is a copy of a working ancient 16bit image - and a load of other useful info, including a 16 bit VM - at https://github.com/devhawala/ST80 Seems like it might make an interesting project to extract the ideas and re-implement.
tim
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