Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!nikhefh!u14
From: u14@nikhefh.hep.nl (Daan Josephus Jitta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: smalltalk for the st?
Message-ID: <443@nikhefh.hep.nl>
Date: 25 Mar 88 18:14:11 GMT
References: <1593@hcrvx1.UUCP>
Reply-To: u14@nikhefh.hep.nl (Daan Josephus Jitta)
Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
Lines: 25
Keywords: Smalltalk-80 Little Smalltalk
Summary: Smalltalk-80 exists for the ST

In article <1593@hcrvx1.UUCP> miken@hcrvx1.UUCP (Mike Nemeth) writes:
>[stuff deleted]. does
>anyone know of a version of smalltalk that runs on the ST? i have
>Little Smalltalk running here at work and could/would port it if there
>isn't a version already running on an ST out there somewhere, but i'd
>rather not reinvent the wheel.

At the moment I think there are TWO versions of Smalltalk for the ST. I just
read an article in the German magazine "68000er/ST Magazin" about an
implementation of Smalltalk-80 for the ST. This implementation requires a 
MEGA [2,4] ST because the size of the virtual system image is over 1.4 MByte.
The price mentioned in the article is: 1700 DM for a small "CL" version, 
and 2260 DM for a professional version. With the professional version one can
also talk to hardware components like the serial and parellel port.
Considering the hardcopies in the magazine Smalltalk-80 on the ST has
excellent graphics! The ST screen acts as a sliding window on the huge,
virtual Smalltalk-80 desktop.

The second Smalltalk for the ST that I know of is a port of Little Smalltalk
made by a friend of mine. If anyone has interest, I can ask him for the
package and post it. It runs on any ST (although I'm not quite sure about
machines with less than 1 MByte of memory).


                       Daan Josephus Jitta.