finding Berkeley Smalltalk BS II for Sun2/3 workstations

[Nigel Williams]

Back in the 1980s David Ungar and David Patterson developed various implementations of Smalltalk to support their research into SOAR (Smalltalk On A RISC) and other ideas.

Does anyone know where to find a copy of BS (Berkeley Smalltalk) for Sun workstations; there are references to them in newsgroup postings from the 1980s.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.smalltalk/ONH08u00zDA/RMPTeZ8tckoJ

Berkeley Smalltalk Announcement
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/net.announce/hWP6ckdt77s/WiyD5oKHga8J

[Jecel]

Post by Nigel Williams
Back in the 1980s David Ungar and David Patterson developed various
implementations of Smalltalk to support their research into SOAR
(Smalltalk On A RISC) and other ideas.

Some early information about this can be found in chapters 11 and 19 of the "green book".

http://sdmeta.gforge.inria.fr/FreeBooks/BitsOfHistory/

Post by Nigel Williams
Does anyone know where to find a copy of BS (Berkeley Smalltalk)
for Sun workstations; there are references to them in newsgroup
postings from the 1980s.

Good luck with your search, but I am guessing it won't be easy. Sun workstation were the very first target of the Xerox spinoff ParcPlace so I wouldn't be surprised if the student projects have been simply thrown away. On the other hand, Berkeley does seem a little better than most at keeping stuff around.

You might want to ask David Ungar, though it is unlikely he would have it.

-- Jecel

[m***@dimap.de]

Well and I am looking for the source code of the Atari VisualWorks system ... that was the first system I worked with and I really would like to make this runnable again ... any ideas ?