Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!sce!scs!Knight
From: Knight@scs.Carleton.CA (Alan Knight)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: Smalltalk-80 compiler for IBM-PC compatables
Keywords: compiler,smalltalk
Message-ID: <694@scs.Carleton.CA>
Date: 3 Aug 89 21:16:11 GMT
References: <1603@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: Knight@scs.UUCP (Alan Knight)
Organization: Computer Science, Carleton University, Canada
Lines: 9

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.