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From: dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: Parc Place Smalltalk-80 on the Macintosh
Message-ID: <4823@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 21 Oct 88 22:09:31 GMT
References: <643@ethz.UUCP> <658@laura.UUCP>
Reply-To: dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David M. O'Rourke)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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>In article <643@ethz.UUCP> zogg@bernina.UUCP (Andreas Zogg) writes:
>>I want to prototype distributed systems in Smalltalk-80. Has anyone
>>experience with ParcPlace Smalltalk for the Mac SE and Mac II.
>>I'm not sure whether the performance is sufficient for convienient 
>>working.

  I know next to nothing about Smalltalk, but.............

  I had dinner with a guy who's developing a Smalltalk/Nu-Bus board for the
Mac II, he claim's it runs SmallTalk 4 times faster than a Sun 4.  He says:
They're working with Alan Kay, and apple should release the board under the
Apple Name something next year for about 5-6000 dollars.  If you want to
know who it is he says it's the same processor that they have out for the
dreaded PC, and Apple approached him to put it on NuBus.

  That's all I know, but I'm sure I'll learn more when the boards released. He
claims it will be the first "fast" SmallTalk machine for under 16,000 dollars.
-- 
David M. O'Rourke                                  dorourke@polyslo.calpoly.edu

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