That entire famous Smalltalk issue of Byte magazine is now online, as
good-quality scans, so you can read all the articles, and juxtaposed
with ads of a magazine of the time:
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08
This was before my time, and, when I was reading this issue recently, I
was struck by the effort that PARC made to reach out to mainstream
industry practitioners and enthusiasts.
This was shortly before the home microcomputer explosion, when everyone
ended up getting BASIC instead of Smalltalk. (Though you could see a
lot of interest in education, even with some of the nice BASIC books
some vendors bundled with each computer, but not all the various PARC
goodness.)
We did get the Macintosh a few years later, though it was out of the
budgets of many people, and it didn't adopt a lot of the PARC thinking.
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