JJJ101@psuvm.psu.edu (06/16/91)
I posted once before asking where I could find a Smalltalk-80 public domain compiler for the IBM PC or Mac. No response. Now I'm looking for any ST-80 package on Amiga, IBM PC, Mac, or Unix. PD is preferred, but I'd possibly buy one. Jim P.S. Smalltalk is mentioned at least twice in the June issue of PC Magazine.
sbb@laplace.eng.sun.com (Steve Byrne) (06/17/91)
In article <91166.145707JJJ101@psuvm.psu.edu> JJJ101@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
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I posted once before asking where I could find a Smalltalk-80
public domain compiler for the IBM PC or Mac. No response.
Now I'm looking for any ST-80 package on Amiga, IBM PC, Mac, or
Unix. PD is preferred, but I'd possibly buy one.
GNU Smalltalk is available for anonymous FTP from
prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/smalltalk-1.1.tar.Z
It implements almost all of Smalltalk-80 as described in the "Blue Book",
has a mechanism for invoking external C functions, and has a primitive X
interface. It runs on Unix boxes and Amigas, but there are no ports to the
other machines that you mentioned.
Stevemanis@cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis) (06/18/91)
In article <91166.145707JJJ101@psuvm.psu.edu> JJJ101@psuvm.psu.edu writes: >Now I'm looking for any ST-80 package on Amiga, IBM PC, Mac, or >Unix. PD is preferred, but I'd possibly buy one. Someone else posted details on GNU Smalltalk, but there are 3 other implementations which are worth looking at: 1) ParcPlace Smalltalk-80: this is, needless to say, The Real Thing. Costs about US$3500, but very deep discounts are available to educational institutions. 2) Digitalk Smalltalk/V: versions exist for DOS, the Mac, Windows, and OS/2 PM. Costs range from US$99 to US$499 for various configurations, with a flat 60% discount for educational use. Digitalk's language is pretty much the same as ParcPlace's, but its class library (especially the user interface classes) is very different. 3) Little Smalltalk: a version of the language which is suitable for very small projects. Not quite compatible with Smalltalk-80. PD; you can ftp it from (as I recollect) cs.orst.edu. -- \ Vincent Manis <manis@cs.ubc.ca> "There is no law that vulgarity and \ Department of Computer Science literary excellence cannot coexist." /\ University of British Columbia -- A. Trevor Hodge / \ Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1W5 (604) 228-2394