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From: MUHRTH@tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Muhr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: Smalltalk/V 286
Message-ID: <90286.072959MUHRTH@DB0TUI11.BITNET>
Date: 13 Oct 90 05:29:59 GMT
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Organization: Technical University Berlin
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(Three good and three bad things about V/286)
We are developing a hypertext like ISS (interpretation support system)
for researchers using hermeneutic methods working with text and use
Smalltalk V/286 for several reasons:
+ Affordable hardware resources:
    2-4 MB RAM and 2MB Harddisk
    286-based PC
+   fast graphics (moving windows, resizing etc.)
+   integrated Prolog written entirely in Smalltalk, thus modifiable
+   excellent manuals
+   low price

-   some accesses need sequential memory runs (no object table)
-   textediting subclasses are not very sophisticated
-   images tend to "fall over"

There is a version announced for Windows 3.0 which will improve (theore-
tically) ST V/286 considerably: SAA-standards for your programs,
virtual memory for your image, multiprocessing (use WordPerfect and your
ST-prog concurrently), small programs,.....
The latter features are what I think will be the improvements, maybe someone
else nows better?
- Thomas
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Thomas Muhr, Technical University of Berlin, BITNET: muhrth@db0tui11
   Project ATLAS - Computer Based Tools for Qualitative Research
         "Computers, like every technology, are a vehicle
      for the transformation of tradition." (WINOGRAD/FLORES)