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Apple ran Smalltalk 80 on the Lisa, Mac Plus, Mac II and a small version on the Mac 512k. A Mac II or IIfx would probably be faster than a Xerox system - which
by lispm 8y ago
Apple ran Smalltalk 80 on the Lisa, Mac Plus, Mac II and a small version on the Mac 512k.
A Mac II or IIfx would probably be faster than a Xerox system - which generally were not very powerful.
- pinewurst 8y agoParcPlace Systems was shipping fast, production-grade Smalltalk-80 on the Mac II with JIT compilation (PS and HPS VMs) in 1988. It was certainly faster than cruddy D-machines (other than Dorado of course) and their final Xerox successors.