marks (11/03/82)
With the recent press about Apple's forthcoming LISA workstation which is purported to use SMALLTALK as it's environment, my past interest in SMALLTALK has been rekindled. I re-read the August 1981 issue of Byte which was entirely devoted to the subject. I noticed that two books authored by Goldberg, Robson, and Ingalls are referred to in several of the articles - these being o SMALLTALK-80: The Language and It's Implementation, and o SMALLTALK-80: The Interactive Programming Environment. These books were not then in print, but were listed as forthcoming. Has anyone seen these in print? Our library's copy of "Books in Print - 1982" does not mention either. Perhaps if anyone at Xerox PARC sees this, they might respond. The purpose of both publications was to put SMALLTALK into the public domain. I am beginning to wonder if there aren't some machinations between Xerox and Apple to keep it out of the public domain until after LISA makes her debut. Mark Beckner - Bell Labs Naperville, Illinois 312-979-2297 / ihuxl!marks