[net.ai] Digitalk Smalltalk for the PC

todd@uhmanoa.UUCP (Todd Ogasawara) (10/04/86)

If anyone out there has played with the version of Smalltalk for the
PC by Digitalk, I'd like to get your opinions.  I am especially
interested in the object-oriented version of Prolog that comes with
the package.  Thanks..todd

Todd Ogasawara, University of Hawaii
Dept. of Psychology & U. of Hawaii Computing Center

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dyer@spdcc.UUCP (Steve Dyer) (10/05/86)

I have it and am very impressed.  Perhaps more convincing though, I have
a friend who's been intimately involved with Smalltalk development
from the very beginning who was also very impressed.  It's even more
remarkable because the Digitalk folks didn't license the Smalltalk-80
virtual machine from Xerox; they developed their system from the formal
and not-so-formal specifications of Smalltalk 80 available in the public
domain.  Apparently, they can call their system "Smalltalk V" because
"Smalltalk" isn't a trademark of Xerox; only "Smalltalk-80" is.

I haven't played with their Prolog system written in Smalltalk.
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Steve Dyer
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