<s>
Little	B-Language
Smalltalk	I-Language
is	O
a	O
non-standard	O
dialect	O
and	O
runtime	B-Device
system	I-Device
,	O
a	O
virtual	B-Architecture
machine	I-Architecture
referred	O
to	O
as	O
"	O
system	O
"	O
,	O
of	O
the	O
Smalltalk-80	B-Application
programming	O
language	O
implemented	O
by	O
Timothy	O
Budd	O
at	O
University	O
of	O
Arizona	O
in	O
1984	O
along	O
with	O
a	O
group	O
of	O
his	O
students	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
originally	O
described	O
in	O
a	O
book	O
"	O
A	O
Little	B-Language
Smalltalk	I-Language
"	O
(	O
1987	O
)	O
,	O
and	O
was	O
created	O
as	O
result	O
of	O
lack	O
of	O
cheap	O
access	O
to	O
Smalltalk-80	B-Application
runtime	O
at	O
the	O
time	O
;	O
it	O
was	O
initially	O
intended	O
to	O
run	O
on	O
Unix	B-Application
on	O
a	O
VAX-780	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Little	B-Language
Smalltalk	I-Language
system	O
was	O
the	O
first	O
Smalltalk	B-Application
interpreter	B-Application
produced	O
outside	O
of	O
Xerox	O
PARC	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Although	O
it	O
lacked	O
many	O
of	O
the	O
features	O
of	O
the	O
original	O
Smalltalk-80	B-Application
system	O
,	O
it	O
helped	O
popularize	O
the	O
ideas	O
of	O
object-oriented	B-Language
programming	I-Language
,	O
virtual	B-Architecture
machines	I-Architecture
,	O
and	O
bytecode	O
interpreters	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
1994	O
,	O
Timothy	O
Budd	O
rewrote	O
Little	B-Language
Smalltalk	I-Language
in	O
Java	B-Language
,	O
and	O
distributes	O
it	O
as	O
the	O
SmallWorld	O
system	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Little	B-Language
Smalltalk	I-Language
source	O
code	O
was	O
n't	O
touched	O
since	O
then	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
They	O
are	O
now	O
maintained	O
by	O
Danny	O
Reinhold	O
via	O
the	O
Little	B-Language
Smalltalk	I-Language
project	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
differs	O
from	O
earlier	O
releases	O
by	O
providing	O
support	O
for	O
graphical	O
applications	O
,	O
a	O
foreign	B-Application
function	I-Application
interface	I-Application
,	O
and	O
many	O
integrated	O
tools	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Little	B-Language
Smalltalk	I-Language
is	O
intended	O
to	O
:	O
</s>
