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I would like to correct some erroneous information about Smalltalk and the Star.

o       Smalltalk "will NOT be released on the
        STAR or anywhere else" -- a "small 
        outfit in Silicon Valley" (not PARC --
        I'm not sure who they're talking about)
        licensed it to HP, TI, and Apple.  When 
        the STAR marketing people found out, 
        they "put a stop to it"

The truth is that LRG, a group within PARC, has licensed Smalltalk-80 (the only
Xerox-authorized version of Smalltalk to be released) to a number of micro- and
mini-computer manufacturers.  The release consists of detailed specifications for
the machine-dependent kernel, plus a mag tape containing the rest of the system
(windows, editor, compiler, file system, etc., etc.)  Several of these manufacturers
have made excellent progress on implementing the system, to the point of having
windows appear on their displays.  I can't comment on the specific list of
manufacturers, since we prefer to let them make their own announcements.  The
Star marketing people have not exerted any pressure in either direction with
respect to this; the release/license process was properly cleared with our legal
department and all relevant product organizations within Xerox, and we are
currently working out ways to license the system to manufacturers (and
universities) beyond the original group.  I can't comment on the availability of
Smalltalk for the Star, except to say that the Star hardware is definitely powerful
enough to support Smalltalk.