5 Aug
2022
5 Aug
'22
1:33 p.m.
This thread needs to move to COFF to continue - although my own story is
1/2 about BSD and the VAX.
On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 10:15 PM Al Kossow <aek(a)bitsavers.org> wrote:
On 8/4/22 5:37 PM, Andrew Newman wrote:
I had to chuckle when I read that. In the fall of '82 (I think), we got a
Smalltalk VM from PARC at UCB. Dave Unger, Ken Keller, and I - plus some
other folks in Patterson's systems seminar who's names I have since
forgotten, wrote a VM in C for the VAX/BSD. We used an AED512 and Keller's
graphics library from his thesis running over a 19.2 serial link as the
output. About a month after we had it running, a couple of us got to visit
PARC, and Peter Deutch showed us Smalltalk running on a Dorado. He ran his
hand with the mouse across the screen opening and closing a bunch of
windows randomly. We started laughing and Peter asked us what was so
funny. We told him what he did would have taken at least 5 minutes to
redisplay on BSD/VAX version.
Clem
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There's a bunch of AED documentation online,
including this...
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/aed/brochures/AED_767_Brochure_Jun82.pdf <
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/aed/brochures/AED_767_Brochure_Jun82.pdf>
I worked at AED before going to Apple, to stay sort of window related, the
last project I worked on at AED was
a VME and Qbus board set that was a complete color X terminal.