andrew@hpqtdla.HP.COM (Andrew Mackenzie) (12/04/89)
Could any knowledgeable 'smalltalker' out there give me a breif list of the different versions of Smalltalk that are available and on which machines they will run ??? Any shareware versions ?? (just hoping)
len@cstowe.csoft.co.nz (Len) (12/07/89)
In article <9010001@hpqtdla.HP.COM> andrew@hpqtdla.HP.COM (Andrew Mackenzie) writes: >Any shareware versions ?? (just hoping) Could anyone with info please post rather than mail, so that we may all benefit from this. Thanks. ============================================================================= len@csoft.co.nz "Eat Plutonium Death, You Disgusting Alien Weirdos" Phone:(063) 65955 - D R Dobbs Snail:c/o-Commercial Software Ltd.,PO Box 4030,Palmerston North,New Zealand =============================================================================
johnson@p.cs.uiuc.edu (12/11/89)
The reason why people don't post responses to questions about public domain Smalltalk's is because there aren't any. Little Smalltalk is public domain, but it does not have anything like the Smalltalk user interface, which is a main feature of Smalltalk. There is also a Gnu project Smalltalk in the works, but there is no plans in the near future for a graphical user interface. Thus, there is nothing that competes with the commercial Smalltalks. There are basically two commercial Smalltalks. ParcPlace has the original Smalltalk-80. It runs on Macs, 386 based machines, Suns, HP machines, etc. Digitalk has Smalltalk-V, which is pretty compatible with Smalltalk-80 on the language level but not always on the class level. However, it has a nice interface, and runs on Macs and PCs. In general, ParcPlace Smalltalk is bigger and has more features, while Digitalk Smalltalk is cheaper and runs on smaller machines. If you just want to fool around, you probably can only afford the Digitalk Smalltalk unless you are at a school and can get the academic discount from ParcPlace. Ralph Johnson -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign