mdr@reed.UUCP (04/29/87)
The MacSmalltalk v0.4 from APDA is apparently going to be available in about 6 weeks. It will run on all of the Macs with more than 1Mbyte of memory and the MacII apparently checks in at about 0.6 of a Dorado using the standard benchmarks. v0.4 is a small object-space interpreter (32k objects?) and it sounds like Apple is not planning to publicly release its lot-of-objects version of the interpreter. Hmm... maybe we should all send notes to the powers within Apple encouraging them to make MacSmalltalk into a real product - prodding might help. Mike Hmmm... We just got a Mac Plus for our research reactor. Maybe I could try using Smalltalk for some real-time control. How about: controlRods <- nil. p.s. I am just kidding about using the Mac for *any* type of control in case anyone is wondering. It makes a great Telnet machine though. -- Reed College -- Portland, Oregon -- 503/774-9192