Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!xylogics!merk!alliant!linus!linus!sdl From: sdl@linus.mitre.org (Steven D. Litvinchouk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Needed: Smalltalk for the Amiga Message-ID: Date: 28 Aug 90 17:14:11 GMT References: <1990Aug24.013033.20516@unx.sas.com> <82258@aerospace.AERO.ORG> Sender: usenet@linus.mitre.org Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga Distribution: na Organization: The Mitre Corporation, Bedford, MA Lines: 30 In-reply-to: obrien@aero.aero.org's message of 27 Aug 90 20:34:49 GMT In article <82258@aerospace.AERO.ORG> obrien@aero.aero.org (Michael O'Brien) writes: > ParcPlace won't do it [port Smalltalk-80 to the Amiga] because the > market's too small, and they won't let anyone else do it for them > unless the prospect pays $100K for ParcPlace system source. I'd go > with the GNU Smalltalk and hope it grows a real user interface soon. > The Amiga 3000 is the closest thing I've seen to a great platform > for ST80 and I think the current situation is a damn shame. I agree; and the lack of a Common Lisp with CLOS for the Amiga makes the current situation all the worse. Any chance we could convince Digitalk to port Smalltalk/V to the Amiga? Since they already have ports for IBM PC, PS/2, and Mac, the Amiga would seem like a logical next step for them. -- Steven Litvintchouk MITRE Corporation Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 (617)271-7753 ARPA: sdl@mbunix.mitre.org UUCP: ...{att,decvax,genrad,ll-xn,philabs,utzoo}!linus!sdl "Where does he get those wonderful toys?" -- J. Napier (a.k.a. "The Joker")