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From: MUHRTH@DB0TUI11.BITNET (Thomas Muhr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: SmallTalk V/286 - Some questions..
Message-ID: <378@DB0TUI11.BITNET>
Date: 3 Aug 89 19:44:34 GMT
Reply-To: MUHRTH@DB0TUI11.BITNET (Thomas Muhr)
Organization: TU Berlin
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Considering SmallTalk as a prototyping tool for a hypertext-alike
application bound to run on 80286-PC's, I am currently trying on DigiTalk's
ST-version. The application to come is of the highly interactive sort and
SmallTalk seems to cover most of technical burdens which surround graphical
user interfaces. But - I have the impression, that there won't even be a
prototype with our reduced resources (RAM: 2 MB !-( ) after having taken a
look at 'Smalltalk unusedMemory' before and after loading a toy application
described in the handbook (SalesCom). The few classes and methods took about
200 KB of adress space! So these are my questions:
Is the above programming environment of any serious use for prototyping and/or
creation of a programm managing large text- and databases (I know this is a
rather fuzzy description) ?
Is the built-in prolog-engine of any use ?
What literature is available which goes beyond the handbook (which is very
good for starters like me!).
Are there public-domain-libraries of useful code?
Why does my system hang after installing the comm-classes/methods?
(Screen starts flickering, the 'vacuum cleaner' seems to have a lot of work
and after a while the system reports memory-depreviation).
I hope there will be somebody out there who can give me some hint or comment
on the described problems.

Thank you very much in advance -
Thomas
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THOMAS MUHR, KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS DPT. OF TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY BERLIN
PROJECT ATLAS - COMPUTER BASED QUALITATIVE RESEARCH FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES
BITNET: MUHRTH@DB0TUI11
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