[Vm-dev] updated paper (was: Sista byte code documentation)

[Jecel Assumpcao Jr]

Vanessa Freudenberg wrote on Tue, 30 Jun 2020 13:21:12 -0700
> I don't know yet how much time I can personally invest in the near future, but if you are interested in helping out, let's discuss here.
> I myself have been busy helping Dan Ingalls build his Smalltalk Zoo website with examples linked from the just-published HOPL paper:
> https://smalltalkzoo.computerhistory.org/papers/EvolutionOfSmalltalk.pdf (this is a version with corrections done after publication)

Thanks for the link! I had already read the previously published version
but it is always nice to have the latest.

I didn't know he was going to do any corrections or I would have
commented on:

"In 1984, I left Xerox and joined Apple, hoping to leverage Apple's
existing nonrestrictive license to put Smalltalk on the Macintosh, and
hence out into the world. I worked for several years on this, and
released several versions of Smalltalk-80 that were available for free
through the Apple Programmers and Developers Association (APDA)."

It was actually $70 and not free, but you could argue that was just the
cost of the media (7 floppy disks) and shipping. But the license was for
personal use only by APDA members so if anybody developed anything with
it they couldn't give it or sell it to anybody else. I was not a member
(being from Brazil I couldn't be even if I wanted to) but someone who
was bought version 0.7 (I think) and sent it to me. He was very nervous
that Apple might audit him and find out he had violated the license.

-- Jecel