Development of smalltalk virtual machine and extension to distributed smalltalk system

Abstract

In recent years, there has been great increase of interest in object oriented languages and architectures. Much of the interest is attributed to the Smalltalk-80 system. KAIST Smalltalk is an implementation of the Smalltalk-80 system in C-language under UNIX. This differs from the standard Smalltalk-80 implementations by giving high portability in both a host processor and a bitmap display. This thesis discusses these systems and proposes a new object model suitable to a distributed object oriented architecture. The distributed object oriented architecture based on the model is partially designed, and will evolve as knowledge is gained from experience with the distributed Smalltalk systems.