Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
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From: andrzej@bigsur.UUCP (Andrzej Bieszczad)
Subject: Smalltalk-80 for MS Windows 3.0
Message-ID: <1990Jun11.175439.12283@bigsur.uucp>
Keywords: Smalltalk, MS Windows
Sender: news@bigsur.uucp (Usenet)
Reply-To: andrzej@bigsur.UUCP (Andrzej Bieszczad)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 90 17:54:39 GMT


Any information about availability of Smalltalk-80 for Microsoft 
Windows version 3.0 would be very appreciated.

I called ParcPlace Systems several times, but every time I was 
forced to talk to their messaging system instead of a salesman.
From this point of view, Digitalk is superior, since I obtained
satisfactory information about the release of Smalltalk/V for
Win3 when I called them first time.

BTW, would not it be nice if both PPS and Digitalk were releasing
their products in two versions: one for people like me who mostly
play with the programming (at home) and the second, high powered, for 
companies developing commercial applications. The first one would
not include, for example, compilers (or other tools for creating
stand-alone applications), and would be much cheaper (somewhere
around $100.00) than the other, including all bells and whistles,
and costing even more than it does now. Many enthusiasts would spend 
hundreds of dollars (a $100.00 or even a little more each) without
hesitation, while they will never, ever, pay $500.00. The policy
like that was exercising by Borland with its Turbo packages - in
my opinion it worked out very well (for both: them and their 
customers).

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Andrzej Bieszczad (Bell-Northern Research, Ltd.)  Phone: (613) 763-2259
USENET:  uunet!bnrgate!bigsur!andrzej             Fax:   (613) 763-3283
Surface: Dept. 7G12, P.O. Box 3511, Station C,
         Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1Y 4H7

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