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From: kt@msor.UUCP (Keith Tizzard)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: ST/V versus ST-80 on a Mac II
Message-ID: <610@msor0.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 90 15:06:35 GMT
Reply-To: kt@msor.exeter.ac.uk (Keith Tizzard)
Organization: MSOR Department, Exeter University, UK
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Can anyone please offer an objective comparison of the merits of 
Smalltalk-80 and Smalltalk/V on an Apple Mac IIci.

I have experience of ST/V on a PC and have used ST-80 on a Sun/3 on 
one or two occasions so am familiar with the superficial differences. 
I realise that ST-80 is the 'real' :-) product but I have greater 
knowledge of the classes and methods in ST/V.  Is is worth learning 
the classes and methods of ST-80 which do the same or similar things?

I appreciate that everyone has their own personal preference and mine,
at the moment, is for ST/V, partly because I have adjusted its 
environment to my liking;  hence my wish for some objective comparison.
Possible questions are:

Are there particular features present in one that are a serious 
omission from the other?  

Is one noticeably more efficient than the other on a Mac?  

Can each of them produce stand-alone executable code for appliactions?
                           

Comments on other aspects would be welcome.

-- 
Keith Tizzard
MSOR Dept, University of Exeter, Streatham Court, EXETER EX4 4PU, UK
tel: (+44) 392 264463    email: kt@msor.exeter.ac.uk     kt@msor.UUCP