original ST-80 fonts

Randal L. Schwartz merlyn at stonehenge.com
Thu Mar 30 05:06:44 UTC 2006


>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Ingalls <Dan at 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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