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From: BILLW@SRI-KL.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: "Smalltalk Coming to Micros!" ?... HA!
Message-ID: <191@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Jul-84 04:33:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.191
Posted: Thu Jul 19 04:33:00 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Jul-84 03:23:41 EDT
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Yeah.  one of the problems getting Smalltalk-80 to run on a small
machine is that its basically an interpreted system, like P-code.
You write your smalltalk bytecode interpretter, and then you get
the smalltalk image from xerox, and off you go...  Wow, really
slow, I wonder why?  I suspect that a "native mode" implementation
of a smalltalk like system could run pretty well on a 10Mhz 68K,
but would be more work than anyone wants to do.  Of course, if
you have a processer with user writeable microcode, you might
be able to do some interesting things... (thats the dorado advantage,
right?).  Did the vax version use user microcode?

It might run on something with a really high clock rate and
internal high speed cache (z800, 68020?)....

BillW