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From: mnkonar@gorby.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Murat N. Konar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Smalltalk-80, any recommendations?
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Date: 9 Apr 89 21:19:02 GMT
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In article <125@unigs.CH> hod@unigs.CH (Hodgkinson Alan) writes:
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>I am interested in programming in Smalltalk-80 on the Mac. 
>Can anyone reccommend a good Smalltalk system or warn me away
>from a bad one?
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>Many thanks in advance.
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>	Alan Hodgkinson
>	hod@unigs.uucp    or    ..mcvax!cernvax!unizh!unigs!hod


There are three I know of but know little about:
1) Apple has a version (unsupported) for around $75 from APDA
2) Digitalk has a version that conforms closely to the Mac user-
   interface standard, $200. It is code compatible with their Smalltalk
   for MS-DOS (puke), though I'm not sure it's 100% standard Smalltalk.
3) Parc Place Systems has a version $995 (!) that should be com-
   pletely standard as Parc Place Systems was started by Xerox PARC
   Alumnus including Adele Goldberg, former manager of the Learning 
   Research Group at Xerox where Smalltalk was developed.

Other than that, I don't know much about these.  Check out back issues
of Byte for reviews of the Digitalk and ParcPlace Smalltalks.


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Murat N. Konar        Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Camden, MN
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