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From: jans@tekchips.TEK.COM (Jan Steinman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: Distributed Object Oriented Programming
Message-ID: <1746@tekchips.TEK.COM>
Date: Wed, 30-Sep-87 12:51:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: tekchips.1746
Posted: Wed Sep 30 12:51:08 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 5-Oct-87 02:48:11 EDT
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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<<<It seems to me that an object oriented message passing language would be 
ideal for distribution...  Has anyone done any work in this area?  Can anyone 
point me to references before I go reinvent the wheel.>>>

Most *real work* that I am familiar with has been done by Dave Thomas, et. al. 
at Carleton University.  (I don't mean to slight others, but Dave's stuff is 
actually running and apparently usefully so!)  He came to Tek and gave a talk 
a few weeks ago that set us all on fire!  There are about a dozen papers that 
should be available through Carleton.  There are also a few papers in the 
OOPSLA `86 proceedings, available through ACM (ACM order #548861), and I see 
at least one or two that may be applicable in the program for OOPSLA `87, 
which happens next week.

Sources:
David A. Thomas, School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, 
Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6.
Association for Computing Machinery, 11 W 42nd St, New York, NY 10036.

<<<(What I want to do is distribute SmallTalk between my Cray 2 and an Iris 
workstation, but I'm having bureacratic problems with the SmallTalk license 
which are too painful to discuss.)>>>

And you aren't even trying to sell it!  Tell us about it!


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