ANDERSON.CMU-CS-C@BRL@sri-unix (11/19/82)
From: David B Anderson <Anderson@Cmu-20c> Mail-From: ARPANET host PARC-MAXC received by CMU-10A at 16-Nov-82 14:55:53-EST Date: 16 Nov. 1982 10:37 am PST (Tuesday) From: VanOrden.eos Subject: Xerox 1100 Smalltalk-80 System THE XEROX 1100 SMALLTALK-80 SYSTEM IS NOW AVAILABLE After 3 1/2 months of beta-testing, the Xerox 1100 Smalltalk-80 System is ready for delivery to customers. The Smalltalk-80 System is being offered as a software option for the Xerox 1100 Scientific Information Processor. Smalltalk-80, the culmination of 10 years of research and development by the Software Concepts Group (SCG) at PARC, is a personal, integrated, interactive programming environment ideally suited to exploratory programming and prototype development. Typical applications of Smalltalk-80 include user interface design, simulation and modeling, and graphics-oriented applications. An earlier version of Smalltalk was used in the development of the Star user interface. The Xerox 1100, also developed at PARC, is a powerful personal scientific workstation and information processor that is currently being used for artificial intelligence applications and exploratory software development. The 1100 supports both the Smalltalk-80 and Interlisp-D programming environments. The Xerox 1100 Smalltalk-80 System is being used internally by the Imaging Systems Division of XEOS, Pasadena, for customer applications development. The integrated environment provides a full range of software development tools which facilitate the rapid design and development of sophisticated interactive applications. System facilities include text and graphics editors, incremental compilation and change management, source language debugger, a graphics-oriented user interface taking full advantage of the mouse, dynamic memory management, a library of approximately 4000 functions, and performance measurement tools. Smalltalk-80 is available internally for both the 1100 and 1132 (Dorado). Two versions exist: the "internal version", currently used by SCG for research and by XEOS for applications development, and the "customer version", the version offered as a product to customers. The customer version is described in detail in two upcoming books from Addison-Wesley: "Smalltalk-80: The Language and Its Implementation" by Adele Goldberg and Dave Robson of SCG and "Smalltalk-80, The Interactive Programming Environment" by Adele Goldberg. The former, available in bookstores in March 1983, provides a detailed description of the Smalltalk-80 System from a programmer's point of view and from an implementer's point of view. The latter, available in bookstores sometime in 1983, is a user's guide consisting of a complete description of the user interface as well as a summary of the programming language. ... Evelyn Van Orden