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Who were "the STAR people" that came to talk to you?

Smalltalk IS being released by PARC this summer. There was a big presentation
on the subject at this year's NCC.  Apple, DEC, HP and other companies are
doing research into implementing it on their machines. (In fact, one of the
primary Smalltalk implementors, Larry Tesler, is now at Apple and was one of
the speakers at NCC.)  A huge article on the subject will appear in the
August issue of BYTE.

The deal is that PARC gives you an "image" file on a tape, whichcontains
all of Smalltalk ready to run.  To run it, you have to implement an
interpreter on your machine for the 256 Smalltalk bytecodes. Just like you
can run Pascal, if you have a P-code interpreter.

(I don't think anyone at Xerox will beat up on me for this message; all of
it comes from strictly public sources.)

/Ron