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  • finding Berkeley Smalltalk BS II for Sun2/3 workstations

    From Nigel Williams@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 25 20:50:27 2017
    Back in the 1980s David Ungar and David Patterson developed various implementations of Smalltalk to support their research into SOAR (Smalltalk On A RISC) and other ideas.

    Does anyone know where to find a copy of BS (Berkeley Smalltalk) for Sun workstations; there are references to them in newsgroup postings from the 1980s.

    https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.smalltalk/ONH08u00zDA/RMPTeZ8tckoJ

    Berkeley Smalltalk Announcement https://groups.google.com/d/msg/net.announce/hWP6ckdt77s/WiyD5oKHga8J

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  • From Jecel@21:1/5 to Nigel Williams on Mon Nov 27 09:28:04 2017
    On Sunday, November 26, 2017 at 2:50:28 AM UTC-2, Nigel Williams wrote:
    Back in the 1980s David Ungar and David Patterson developed various implementations of Smalltalk to support their research into SOAR
    (Smalltalk On A RISC) and other ideas.

    Some early information about this can be found in chapters 11 and 19 of the "green book".

    http://sdmeta.gforge.inria.fr/FreeBooks/BitsOfHistory/

    Does anyone know where to find a copy of BS (Berkeley Smalltalk)
    for Sun workstations; there are references to them in newsgroup
    postings from the 1980s.

    Good luck with your search, but I am guessing it won't be easy. Sun workstation were the very first target of the Xerox spinoff ParcPlace so I wouldn't be surprised if the student projects have been simply thrown away. On the other hand, Berkeley does
    seem a little better than most at keeping stuff around.

    You might want to ask David Ungar, though it is unlikely he would have it.

    -- Jecel

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 5 12:04:19 2017
    Well and I am looking for the source code of the Atari VisualWorks system ... that was the first system I worked with and I really would like to make this runnable again ... any ideas ?

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