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- From: ken@cs.cornell.edu (Ken Birman)
- Subject: Re: ISIS, Smalltalk, CLOS
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.161436.7686@cs.cornell.edu>
- Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
- References: <By18oA.DAC@hsi.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 16:14:36 GMT
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- In article <By18oA.DAC@hsi.com> wright@hsi.com (Gary Wright) writes:
- >
- >Has anyone out there tried to integrate the ISIS toolkit with
- >Smalltalk or CLOS?
-
- I think Cliff will be posting something on Isis within CLOS environments.
- He developed the commercial version of our Common LISP interface, which looks
- much better than the V2.1 version (and is faster too), so he's the expert
- on this.
-
- As for Smalltalk, we have an activity now that will produce a smalltalk
- distributed computing environment that presents most Isis functions in
- terms of object inheritence. We expect to announce the product arund
- the end of the year, but preliminary information is available from Rick
- Moran, who heads our New York office.
-
- I personally am really excited about this direction for the technology --
- we are trying to go well beyond just providing interfaces for Isis from
- Smalltalk, and we see this as an activity that will lead to a collection
- of object-oriented reliability tools from our effort. Beyond Smalltalk,
- we plan to focus on the CORBA spec. and C++, starting this early in 1993.
- Again, Rick Moran would be the person to contact for information about
- early access.
-
- Rick should get email as moran@isis.com starting soon, but until our mailer
- is working properly (it is currently being reconfigured and may not work
- at all), email to Rick via sla@isis.com
-
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