sbyrne@nfsun.UUCP (Steve Byrne) (03/24/90)
I am happy to announce the availability of GNU Smalltalk, version 1.0. GNU Smalltalk is written in highly portable C. It is known compile and run on a variety of machines including Suns, NeXTs, DECStation 3100s, and was even recently ported to an Atari ST. GNU Smalltalk is a reasonably complete implementation of the Smalltalk-80 language defined in "Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation" by Adele Goldberg and David Robson. It does not feature a graphical user interface (yet), but does have a mechanism to call C functions from Smalltalk methods, with the appropriate automatic type conversions. The README file describes in more detail some of the features of GNU Smalltalk; the texinfo file fully describes all the features of GNU Smalltalk. AVAILABILITY GNU Smalltalk is available for anonymous FTP from prep.ai.mit.edu as pub/gnu/smalltalk-1.0.tar.Z. It is about 350k compressed. Bugs, suggestions, or even offers of assistance may be mailed to bug-gnu-smalltalk@prep.ai.mit.edu. I have included a bunch of ideas for future projects in the manual; please feel free to ask about them, or to volunteer to help out with some of them. Some people have reported having trouble with this mailing list address; if you have trouble, you may send mail directly to me, nfsun!sbyrne@uunet.uu.net, or to bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu. Overall, the responses that I have received so far have been very positive. ACKNOWLEDGMENT I would like to thank the FSF for their high quality tools that were used in the construction of GNU Smalltalk. The general availability of tools such as GCC, Bison, and of course GNU Emacs made the development of GNU Smalltalk not only possible, but also highly enjoyable. Thanks, folks!!! Steve Byrne P.S. "Smalltalk-80" is a trademark of ParcPlace Systems, Inc.
obrien@aerospace.aero.org (Mike O'Brien) (03/25/90)
Folks, this package is amazing. For experimentation, teaching or just playing around, this is an awful lot of software to get for free. Give this thing a windowing system and a native-mode compiler, and my problems with getting Smalltalk for the Amiga will be solved! Let's pitch in and help make this a great system. -- Mike O'Brien obrien@aerospace.aero.org
schang@netcom.UUCP (Sehyo Chang) (03/25/90)
In article <69464@aerospace.AERO.ORG> obrien@anpiel.UUCP (Mike O'Brien) writes: >Folks, this package is amazing. For experimentation, teaching or just >playing around, this is an awful lot of software to get for free. Give >this thing a windowing system and a native-mode compiler, and my problems >with getting Smalltalk for the Amiga will be solved! > >Let's pitch in and help make this a great system. >-- >Mike O'Brien >obrien@aerospace.aero.org How about true persistent smalltalk-80?. By the way one way to get windowing system for GNU smalltalk is interfacing to PostScript interpreter(using NeWS or GhostScript). -- Sehyo Chang schang@netcom.uucp Ascent Logic Corp. (408)943-0630
turtle@sciences.tmc.edu (Andrew Scherpbier) (03/26/90)
In article <69464@aerospace.AERO.ORG> obrien@anpiel.UUCP (Mike O'Brien) writes: >Folks, this package is amazing. For experimentation, teaching or just >playing around, this is an awful lot of software to get for free. Give >this thing a windowing system and a native-mode compiler, and my problems >with getting Smalltalk for the Amiga will be solved! > >Let's pitch in and help make this a great system. >-- >Mike O'Brien >obrien@aerospace.aero.org I'll second that! I compiled/installed it and it ran just fine. However, after I got it to work, I tried to get the Sunview hack working without any luck. It seems to be barfing on CFuncs.st Did anybody get it to work under Sunview? ----- Andrew "Race Turtle" Scherpbier SysMgr San Diego State University College of Sciences turtle@sciences.sdsu.edu ...!uunet!ucsd!sdsu!sciences!turtle
johnny@edvvie.at (Johann Schweigl/104857600) (04/13/90)
From article <P9H#HC_@rpi.edu>, by fargo@iear.arts.rpi.edu (Irwin M. Fargo):
> You can FTP it from prep.ai.mit.edu.
Forgive the stupid question: I've no FTP access. Any other possibilities
to get it? Listserver? Mailorder?
Thanx, Johnny
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