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From: tower@AI.MIT.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
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Subject: [gnu.announce] Announcing the release of GNU Smalltalk 1.1
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Date: 29 May 90 03:50:51 GMT
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	[ This software will soon be available for anonymous uucp on
	  osu-cis and anonymous ftp on gatekeeper.dec.com. ]

Forwarded-For: nfsun!sbyrne@uunet.uu.net (Steve Byrne)

I am happy to announce the availability of GNU Smalltalk, version 1.1.

Version 1.1 is a substantial improvement over version 1.0.  Some
of the new features are:

* STIX -- SmallTalk Interface to X.  A working implementation of an interface
  from GNU Smalltalk to the X procotol layer.  Includes example program.

* Smalltalk interactor mode -- allows for incremental, compile or execute
  while editing source code.  Similar to traditional Smalltalk or
  Lisp machine development environments, but runs under GNU Emacs.
  Improves productivity tremendously!

* Binary image file size has been reduced substantially.  Other GC related
  things improved as well.

* Readline interface for easier use outside of Emacs.

* Improved error handling and recovery, including control-C handling.

* Installs in subdirectory, instead of current directory.

* Manual has been improved and extended.

* Ports to other machines now include:
    Apollo 3000,4000,10000
    Atari ST
    DECStation 3100
    Encore Multimax
    HP 9000/300 series and 9000/800 series
    Interactive 386 System V.3
    Sony News 1810
    Sun3,Sun4 
    NeXT
    Pyramid
    Sequent
    SGI Iris-4D
    Tektronix 431[5-7], 9?
    VAX

GNU Smalltalk 1.1 may be anonymously FTPed from prep.ai.mit.edu in 
pub/gnu/smalltalk-1.1.tar.Z, and soon from other sites that have
version 1.0.

My heartfelt thanks to all who have contributed to this version!!!  

Steve

PS: Send bug reports to bug-gnu-smalltalk@prep.ai.mit.edu.