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.
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