The Early History Of Smalltalk by Alan Kay
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The Early History of Smalltalk

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Introduction 2
I. 1960-66--Early OOP and other formative ideas of the sixties
B220 File System
SketchPad & Simula 		4
II. 1967-69--The FLEX Machine, an OOP-based personal computer
Doug Englebart and NLS
Plasma Panel, GRAIL, LOGO, Dynabook 		6
III. 1970-72--Xerox PARC
KiddiKomp
miniCOM
Smalltalk-71
Overlapping Windows
Font Editing, Painting, Animation, Music
Byte Codes
Iconic Programming 		12
IV. 1972-76--Xerox PARC: The first real Smalltalk (-72)
The two bets: birth of Smalltalk and Interim Dynabook
Smalltalk-72 Principles
The Smalltalk User Interface
Development of the Smalltalk Applications & System
Evolution of Smalltalk: ST-74, ooze storage management
Smalltalk and Children		 17
V. 1976-80--The first modern Smalltalk (-76)
"Let's burn our disk packs"
The Notetaker
Smalltalk-76
Inheritance
More Troubles With Xerox
ThingLab
Apple Demo 		29
VI. 1980-83--The release version of Smalltalk (-80)
Transformations
Coda 		38
References Cited in Text 41
Appendix I: KiddieKomp Memo 45
Appendix II: Smalltalk-72 Interpreter Design 47
Appendix III: Acknowledgments 50
Appendix IV: Event Driven Loop Example 53
Appendix V: Smalltalk-76 Internal Structures 54

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The Early History Of Smalltalk by Alan Kay
Abstract TOC Introduction Section I II III IV V VI