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From: mwjester@wsuiar.uucp (loki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Smalltalk
Message-ID: <685.27ca4649@wsuiar.uucp>
Date: 26 Feb 91 16:28:08 GMT
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In article <16782@milton.u.washington.edu>,
	ramsiri@blake.u.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj) writes:
> Is there a Smalltalk for the ST?  PD?

I'm posting this, as the question may be of general interest.
The answers to your questions are: Yes, No.
Yes, there is a Smalltalk for the ST. No, it is not PD, but it is probably
close enough if by that you mean free.  Gnu smalltalk v1.1 is available
via anonymous ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu.  The makefile has some #ifdef's
for the atari, so you might not need to do anything special while
compiling.

BE WARNED - you WILL need 4 Megs to run it.  I built v1.0 on the ST,
and it did not run in 2.5 Megs (I've got 4, but with a 1.5M ramdisk).
Also, it is not GEM-oriented at this time; you deal with a command line.
Docs are mainly the source and a 35-page manual (tex sources included).
The Goldberg book(s) are highly recommended (green and or blue - the
purple is sneered at by the author(s) of the manual for the gnu version).

Hope this helps.
Max J.