Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!hao!gatech!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bbn!rochester!PT.CS.CMU.EDU!IUS3.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU!ralphw
From: ralphw@IUS3.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU (Ralph Hyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Smalltalk/Pc-MATE Question
Message-ID: <953@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Date: 24 Feb 88 22:40:49 GMT
References: <8802082138.AA00628@crash.cts.com> <439@n8emr.UUCP> <1393@netmbx.UUCP>
Sender: netnews@PT.CS.CMU.EDU
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
Lines: 26

In article <1393@netmbx.UUCP> blume@netmbx.UUCP (Heiko Blume) writes:
>
>smalltalk-pc/mate *definitely* will run on the apple II (256KB minimum...),
>the article descibes what hardware is required to run smalltalk and
>it was presented in BYTE 5/85. at that time neither the pc transporter
>nor the //gs existed...quote: 'A variant of smalltalk-pc called smalltalk-mate
>will run on multiple-processor hardware systems, including the apple II and 
>IBM PC with added processor cards'. {smalltalk-pc will run on apples too}
>real neat software , uh !?
>i will *never* stop trying to get this thing

The most common 'multiple-processor system' sounds like a Z-80 card.
256KB minimum would imply a //e-based system, which you can get
a 68000 card for (from PDQ and some dead company sold a board that plugged 
into the //e auxiliary slot and talked to CD-ROM drives.) 

Unless this company was developing their own hardware (like a 2901-based
card that intepreted smalltalk-80 bytecodes directly), I can't imagine
why they'd require a Z-80 card for the PC, since the 8088 is more powerful.

You might have better luck finding little smalltalk, which is written in C
and might be available from one of the archive servers.
-- 
					- Ralph W. Hyre, Jr.

Internet: ralphw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu    Phone:(412)268-{2847,3275} CMU-{BUGS,DARK}
Amateur Packet Radio: N3FGW@W2XO, or c/o W3VC, CMU Radio Club, Pittsburgh, PA