petel@raoul.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Pete Lund) (08/02/89)
I am considering taking a graduate level course in OOL, which requires programming in smalltalk-80. This class is offered through a satellite network, and as such I do not have access to the computer facilities at the school offering the class. Does anyone out there know if a shareware smalltalk-80 compiler exists for the IBM-PC. If not, how about any recommendations regarding commercially available products, again targeted for the IBM-PC? When making suggestions, please consider that while I do have experience with C++, I have no prior experience with smalltalk. Please respond by e-mail, and if there are numerous responses I will post a summary. Thanks in advance. Pete Lund
Knight@scs.Carleton.CA (Alan Knight) (08/04/89)
Smalltalk-80 is available for 386 machines. It is not, so far as I know available in any form for 286 or 8086 and it is not available as shareware. Smalltalk/V, which is similar but probably not close enough for your course, will run on an IBM (somewhat crippled), and Smalltalk/V 286 will run on a 286 or higher machines, and is much nicer to use than plain /V. Things like 'A Little Smalltalk' will run (I think) on a PC, but has no interface. Basically, it is impossible to fit Smalltalk-80 in 640K and it is difficult to make the virtual machine work for a 286.