jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg) (11/14/87)
I recently got Smalltalk/V for Mess-DOS and am starting to get excited about
object oriented programming and the kind of environment Smalltalk provides.
I've gotten the Little Smalltalk recently posted to the net, and know that
there's a company called ParcPlace Systems that has a port of Smalltalk-80 to
Sun and Mac II -- I intend to send them mail today asking about this. The 3B1
seems like a pretty good platform for Smalltalk. Smalltalk + UNIX is my idea
of the best of all possible worlds, and I can't afford either a Sun or a Mac
II at the moment, but have already got a 3B1. Anybody know of any Smalltalk
out there for the 3B1?
(For those who might be reading this on comp.lang.smalltalk not familiar with
the 3B1, the machine is a 10Mhz 68010 that can be loaded with several megs of
RAM, the screen is fully bit-mapped (i.e. characters are soft-loaded from
bit-mapped fonts) -- in short just what you need for Smalltalk. A mouse is
standard, of course, and the machine supports demand paging, so in theory at
least it could run an image larger than physical RAM without needing any
special code to swap objects. The machine sold dismally until AT&T staged its
fire sale. There are now scads of them out there, & AT&T has given away quite
a few to universities. The version of UNIX it runs is Convergent's hack of
System V Release 1, with lots of nice wrinkles like shared libraries and
loadable device drivers.)
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