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

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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