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From: andrzej@bigsur.UUCP (Andrzej Bieszczad)
Subject: Re: Windows 3 and ATI card
Message-ID: <1990May25.140054.28663@bigsur.uucp>
Keywords: other protected mode programs
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Reply-To: andrzej@bigsur.UUCP (Andrzej Bieszczad)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
References: <1990May25.043622.13204@cs.uoregon.edu> <20071@grebyn.com> <1990May24.151357.18143@bigsur.uucp>
Date: Fri, 25 May 90 14:00:54 GMT

In article <1990May25.043622.13204@cs.uoregon.edu>,
akm@cacofonix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) writes:
> >2. Does anybody know about any plans on behalf of Digitalk to ship
> >   Smaltalk V/Win3.0? How soon?
> 
> I wrote to Digitalk, and they toldme that they had no plans for a
> Windows version of Smalltalk. Seems even more unlikely now that IBM
> has decided that Smalltalk/PM is to be a standard part of their
> development tools.
> 

Thanks for sharing info, but since I posted the question I found out that 
there is a Win3.0 version of Smalltalk V coming in the last quarter of 1990.
The information is directly from Digitalk - I called them on May 24, 1990.
Somewhere around September they will have all specs, but the fact is that
the ST V/Win will be similar to ST V/PM, but without a compiler.

Could anybody compare ACTOR with Smalltalk?

I have not managed to invoke ST V/286 from within Windows (at least so far).
There is some hope in a PIF where one may specify an amount of XMS memory
for an application. Has anybody succeeded?

Does anybody know why neither DOS Prompt nor command.com can be run on
my 386 with 4MB of memory and ATI VGA 512 video card? It gives me communicate
that there is not enough memory, which is impossible since the system shows
almost 7MB of available virtual memory. I have no problem with running any 
other DOS application and switching between them (Nota bene: IT WORKS
BEAUTIFUL, unless I try to use PIFs).

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