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From: lgm@cbnewsc.att.com (lawrence.g.mayka)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: INFOWORLD, Smalltalk-80 4.0
Summary: Symbolics is not dead
Keywords: Smalltalk-80, InfoWorld
Message-ID: <1990Sep25.000545.6416@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 25 Sep 90 00:05:45 GMT
References: <7696@milton.u.washington.edu> <13364@netcom.UUCP> <426@scubed.SCUBED.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <426@scubed.SCUBED.COM>, warner@scubed.com (Ken Warner) writes:
> I'd hate to see such a beautiful environment die from lack of interest...but
> it can.  Witness Symbolics' stuff.  Come on down ParcPlace, from your Ivory
> Tower.

Symbolics is alive and profitable and busy shipping its XL1200 model.
Nevertheless, your observation that the general programming public is
unwilling to pay a top-notch price even for top-notch software (the
"bargain-basement" syndrome) is only too accurate.


	Lawrence G. Mayka
	AT&T Bell Laboratories
	lgm@iexist.att.com

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