Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!mdrutenberg From: mdrutenberg@watmath.UUCP (Mike Rutenberg) Newsgroups: net.lang.st80 Subject: Re: "Smalltalk Coming to Micros!" IT IS TRUE Message-ID: <8613@watmath.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Aug-84 23:41:36 EDT Article-I.D.: watmath.8613 Posted: Fri Aug 10 23:41:36 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Aug-84 01:46:12 EDT Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 18 Date: Fri, 20 Jul 84 11:19:47 PDT From: Deutsch.pa@Xerox.Arpa Subject: Re: "Smalltalk Coming to Micros!" IT IS TRUE In-reply-to: fluke!kurt's message of Wed, 18 Jul 84 08:56:02 PDT The POPL presentation was by Nori Suzuki, a University of Tokyo faculty member. He is designing a special-purpose Smalltalk processor, and also doing a MC68000 implementation. He has ties with one of the Japanese manufacturers, but I think he is mainly interested in getting his chip built. I have also heard through the grapevine that a Japanese manufacturer is interested in a high-end portable with Smalltalk, also based on the MC68000. (I believe the Japanese have evaluated the MC68000 and iAPX x86 architectures and come to the same conclusion I did, namely that the Intel chips have such a shortage of registers and such dreadful facilities for addressing flat spaces larger than 64K bytes that despite their greater speed and popularity they are substantially inferior Smalltalk engines.)