betz (04/07/83)
For all of you out there that have been anxiously awaiting the book "Smalltalk-80 The Language and its Implementation", it has finally been released. I called up Addison Wesley a few days ago and gave them my MasterCard number. Yesterday the book arrived in my mailbox. I haven't had much time to look through it, but it looks like it does a good job of describing the language. The back cover also talks about 3 other books in the series! I wonder when they'll be out? The one thing that the book doesn't seem to mention is how to get a copy of the virtual memory image. There is a detailed description of the virtual machine, but you can't do anything with the virtual machine without the VMI. If anyone out there knows how to get this I'd be interested in finding out. David Betz