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From: ergo@netcom.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: INFOWORLD, Smalltalk-80 4.0
Keywords: Smalltalk-80, InfoWorld
Message-ID: <13364@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 18 Sep 90 16:46:21 GMT
References: <7696@milton.u.washington.edu>
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In <7696@milton.u.washington.edu> benson@blake.u.washington.edu (Dan Benson) writes:

>For those Smalltalkers who missed it, here is the article from
>page 24 of INFOWORLD, September 10, 1990.

>---- begin -----------------------------------------------------------
>Platform-Independent Smalltalk Release 4.0 To Ship in November

...


>Mac and PC versions require a minimum of 4 megabytes of RAM; UNIX
>systems require at least 8 megabytes.  Objectworks Smalltalk costs $3,500
>and runtime licenses cost $350 each, with volume prices available. 
>Windows 3.0 and RS/6000 versions are scheduled to ship in the first
>quarter 1991.

Just by way of contrast:  Smalltalk V/286 lists at $250, and schools
can get very inexpensive site licenses.  At least 2.5 meg of ram is
recommended, though not absolutely necessary.  And I would guess the
aforementioned product needs at least a 20mhz cpu and a 32-bit bus,
wheras Smalltalk V gets by on my old 6mhz system.  There are also
Presentation Manager and Mac versions.

Yes, it's a stripped down version of Smalltalk.  There's no free
lunch here.  But not everybody devlopes software that only runs on
$5,000 systems.


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