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From: mdr@reed.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: Smalltalk80 for Mac from Xerox?
Message-ID: <6173@reed.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Apr-87 14:45:12 EDT
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Posted: Wed Apr 29 14:45:12 1987
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Reply-To: mdr@reed.UUCP (Mike Rutenberg)
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
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Keywords: Smalltalk, Mac II, ParcPlace Systems
Xref: utgpu comp.sys.mac:2586 comp.lang.smalltalk:96

The MacSmalltalk v0.4 from APDA is apparently going to be available
in about 6 weeks.  It will run on all of the Macs with more than 1Mbyte
of memory and the MacII apparently checks in at about 0.6 of a Dorado
using the standard benchmarks.

v0.4 is a small object-space interpreter (32k objects?) and it sounds
like Apple is not planning to publicly release its lot-of-objects
version of the interpreter.  Hmm... maybe we should all send notes to
the powers within Apple encouraging them to make MacSmalltalk into a
real product - prodding might help.

Mike

Hmmm... We just got a Mac Plus for our research reactor.
        Maybe I could try using Smalltalk for some real-time control.
		How about:  controlRods <- nil.

p.s. I am just kidding about using the Mac for *any* type of control
in case anyone is wondering.  It makes a great Telnet machine though.
-- 
	Reed College -- Portland, Oregon -- 503/774-9192