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There was one Smalltalk-72 inspired implementation not created by PARC. It was based on their publications before Smalltalk-80 was released. Rosetta Smalltalk

• igouy 5y ago
  afaict That was a “prototype”. Was it ever made available to anyone beyond the authors?
  • infinite8s 5y ago
    It was supposed to be released to run on Z80 machines. Apparently it was killed when Smalltalk-80 was starting to be released (if Ted Nelson is to be believed): https://archive.org/details/RosettaBrochure/RosettaBrochure/page/n0/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/RosettaBrochure/RosettaBrochure/...
  • xkriva11 5y ago
    They wrote: Rosetta Smalltalk was shown at the Exidy booth at NCC'81 and beta-tested at about 40 sites across the country. But it was unfortunatelly discarded as soon as Xerox published Smalltalk-80.
    • igouy 5y ago
      Fair enough, I don't wish to diminish their work, or lionize Smalltalk-72 over Smalltalk-80.