Great news indeed Does Lam Research have specific requirements ?
"These enhancements range from running highly optimized Smalltalk on low cost, single board computers," is this embedded / low spec hardware ? On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 12:56 PM Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> wrote: > Not yet :) > > Doru > > > > On Aug 25, 2016, at 11:43 AM, stepharo <steph...@free.fr> wrote: > > > > Excellent news! Do you have a visual for a new success story? > > > > > > Le 25/8/16 à 10:50, Tudor Girba a écrit : > >> Hi, > >> > >> We are very happy to make the following announcement: > >> > >> > >> Lam Research, a leading supplier of wafer fabrication equipment and > services to the global semiconductor industry, is an experienced user of > the Smalltalk programming language. Smalltalk is a key component in Lam's > software control system for a broad range of the equipment it manufactures. > Tudor Girba is a leading member of the tools and environment development > effort in Pharo, having architected the Glamorous Toolkit for live > programming. Eliot Miranda is author of the Cog virtual machine that > underlies Pharo and other Smalltalk dialects. > >> > >> Lam has engaged Tudor and Eliot to explore potential enhancements in > Lam's use of Smalltalk. These enhancements range from running highly > optimized Smalltalk on low cost, single board computers, to enhancing Lam's > Smalltalk development practices with state-of-the-art live programming. > During the engagement, Tudor and Eliot successfully moved a key > communication component of the control system to Pharo. It was a > challenging task aimed at extending the reach of Lam’s system to the Pharo > world including the option of executing on ARM processors. > >> > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Tudor Girba, Eliot Miranda and Chris Thorgrimsson > >> > > > > > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com > www.feenk.com > > "What is more important: To be happy, or to make happy?" > > >
