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From: fischer@iesd.dk (Lars P. Fischer)
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Subject: Re: Smalltalk-80, any recommendations?
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Date: 10 Apr 89 11:48:53 GMT
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In-reply-to: mnkonar@gorby.SRC.Honeywell.COM's message of 9 Apr 89 23:22:56 GMT



In article <20221@srcsip.UUCP> mnkonar@gorby.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Murat N. Konar) writes:
>There are three I know of but know little about:
>..
>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.

The ParcPlace version is the *real thing*, straight from Xerox,
compatible with various books on Smalltalk, down to the structure of
the class hierarchy. Also, it is available for a number of machines,
including Mac, Sun 3, Sun 4, Sun 386i, Atari MegaST, 386 PC's (yuck)
and others. The fact that you can use the same system, with the same
code, user interface, etc, on all these machines could be important.

The price is a bit steep. There's a special University Price, though :-).

/Lars

Disclaimer: I have no relation to ParcPlace, other than as a costumer.
--
Lars Fischer,  fischer@iesd.dk, {...}!mcvax!iesd!fischer
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
			-- Arthur C. Clarke