plogan@mentor.com (Patrick Logan) (10/10/90)
I'd like to get some feedback on the performance and features of Smalltalk/V 286. Please tell me anything you want. I am aware of the differences between V and 80, so I'd like to stick with what's good and bad about V-286, in and of itself. What would be great would be a list of, say, three good things and three bad things. (More if you like to type.) Thanks -- Patrick Logan, uunet!mntgfx!plogan Mentor Graphics Corp. 8500 SW Creekside, Beaverton, Oregon 97005-7191
MUHRTH@tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Muhr) (10/13/90)
(Three good and three bad things about V/286)
We are developing a hypertext like ISS (interpretation support system)
for researchers using hermeneutic methods working with text and use
Smalltalk V/286 for several reasons:
+ Affordable hardware resources:
2-4 MB RAM and 2MB Harddisk
286-based PC
+ fast graphics (moving windows, resizing etc.)
+ integrated Prolog written entirely in Smalltalk, thus modifiable
+ excellent manuals
+ low price
- some accesses need sequential memory runs (no object table)
- textediting subclasses are not very sophisticated
- images tend to "fall over"
There is a version announced for Windows 3.0 which will improve (theore-
tically) ST V/286 considerably: SAA-standards for your programs,
virtual memory for your image, multiprocessing (use WordPerfect and your
ST-prog concurrently), small programs,.....
The latter features are what I think will be the improvements, maybe someone
else nows better?
- Thomas
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Project ATLAS - Computer Based Tools for Qualitative Research
"Computers, like every technology, are a vehicle
for the transformation of tradition." (WINOGRAD/FLORES)