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From: rodger@violon.chorus.fr (Rodger Lea)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: Questions
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Date: 1 Dec 89 15:29:36 GMT
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Sender: rodger@chorus.fr
Reply-To: rodger@violon.chorus.fr (Rodger Lea)
Organization: Chorus systemes, St Quentin en Yvelines, France
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Hi,

2 quick questions from a novice rainbow person,

- where can I get a good book describing the architecture
  of the rainbow from a programming point of view, ie
  what's in it, where, and how you program it ?

- I've got a 100b with memory upgrade (and that's about all
  I know !) - no hard disk. If I was interested in putting
  a hard disk in it - what are my options ?

(please note that I'm based in France, so names of good
disk suppliers on the west coast etc, won't work :-)

However, anybody in France - or preferably the UK (I'm in
exile !) who use these things would be a good contact !

Lastly, as a fairly long shot, anybody out there using SmallTalk (PC
versions) under whatever it took to get it running (code-blue Dos3.X,
Unix, serial line to Cray, etc etc) or am I really wasting my time?
I'm aware of 'little Smalltalk' which is PD and I'll get that running
as soon as I get a C compiler - but I'm interested in the the slightly
more complete systems, Actor (under Windows) is also of interest.
Also I've heard vague rumours about object oriented extensions to
Pascal in the latest Turbo relase (v5.5?). Anybody got any experience
and care to comment on how 'object oriented' they are.

(I'd cross post the last question to comp.object or one of the
object language newsgroups, however, since such questions tend to
stir up the ever present religous war in this field, I'll wait
'till I fail here :-)

Cheers etc,

Rodge.