laura@utcsstat.UUCP (Laura Creighton) (09/03/83)
To the person who posted the article on Smalltalk -- your address got munged on the way here, and I can't mail back to you. I do not understand how smalltalk IO works, and I am one of those grotty people who will understand it a lot better if I could find out how it is IMPLEMENTED on real machines. This information I have been unable to get, perhaps because I am looking in the wrong places. Could you either send me a reference or post (or mail me) whatever is not proprietary about the implementation details? laura creighton utzoo!utcsstat!laura
darrelj@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Darrel VanBuer) (09/04/83)
The most available book on how Smalltalk-80 is implemented is "Smalltalk-80. The Language and its Implementation" by Adele Goldberg and David Robson, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass, (c) 1983. $37.25 or so. 150 pages are specifically devoted to implementation of the system (i.e. how memory should look, what instruction set (or pseudo-set) is expected and what "built-in" features of the language are required (e.g. simple arithmetic. The book is not really a tutorial on the language (there really isn't one yet), but it is the main book we are using as we try to learn to use Smalltalk on our Xerox 1100. You might also review the newsgroup net.lang.st80 (though it isn't real active). Darrel J. Van Buer, Ph D System Development Corporation arpa VanBuer@USC-ECL tel (213)820-4111 x5449 uucp: sdcrdcf (path--beats me, try route in news header)