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From: verber@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Mark Verber)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: smalltalk compiler
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Date: 26 Feb 91 03:04:33 GMT
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In-reply-to: brian@student.ecok.edu's message of 20 Feb 91 15:06:01 GMT

I don't have really current prices.. but I can give you ballpark
figures.  The first question is what kind of machine do you want to
run on?  Well... what machine do you want an OO language to run on?
ParcPlace Objectworks\ST80 (the premier version of Smalltalk-80) has a
nice university pricing... something like $400 rather than the retail
>$3k which runs on MacIIs, 386, or UNIX workstations.  Digitalk makes
Smalltalk/V which runs on Macs and PCs and runs around $200 for
university purchases.  Apple also sells a Smalltalk-80 Version 1 for
Macs through APDA (was priced around $50).

There are a number of public domain (or licensed but free) OO system
you could look at.  There is little smalltalk by Tim Budd which will
run on PCs and UNIX boxes, the GNU smalltalk which will run on UNIX
boxes (and Amigas?), OakLisp which runs on UNIX boxes and Macs, and Self
which runs on Sun-3 and Sun-4s.

Cheers,
Mark