kurt@fluke.UUCP (Kurt Guntheroth) (07/18/84)
If you don't think smalltalk is coming to home computers you are not
listening. There are at least 2 Japanese companies working on smalltalk
ports. If I remember right, it was a Fujitsu engineer who gave a talk about
their optimized smalltalk implementation at POPL in January. They are
building an iAPX-86 machine that can run smalltalk (plus IBMPC of course).
This is not a rumor, this is fact. I was at POPL. I heard the talk. The
man from Japan has a plan. He didn't announce availability though.
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Kurt Guntheroth
John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
{uw-beaver,decvax!microsof,ucbvax!lbl-csam,allegra,ssc-vax}!fluke!kurtmdrutenberg@watmath.UUCP (Mike Rutenberg) (08/11/84)
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 84 11:19:47 PDT From: Deutsch.pa@Xerox.Arpa Subject: Re: "Smalltalk Coming to Micros!" IT IS TRUE In-reply-to: fluke!kurt's message of Wed, 18 Jul 84 08:56:02 PDT The POPL presentation was by Nori Suzuki, a University of Tokyo faculty member. He is designing a special-purpose Smalltalk processor, and also doing a MC68000 implementation. He has ties with one of the Japanese manufacturers, but I think he is mainly interested in getting his chip built. I have also heard through the grapevine that a Japanese manufacturer is interested in a high-end portable with Smalltalk, also based on the MC68000. (I believe the Japanese have evaluated the MC68000 and iAPX x86 architectures and come to the same conclusion I did, namely that the Intel chips have such a shortage of registers and such dreadful facilities for addressing flat spaces larger than 64K bytes that despite their greater speed and popularity they are substantially inferior Smalltalk engines.)