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Article #358Digitalk Smalltalk/V
From: Mike O'Dell
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1986 15:07
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1986 15:07
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Digitalk Smalltalk is VERY GOOD!! It is real Smalltalk,
not at all like TURBOT {Pascal,Prolog,etc}. It runs on
AT-class machines very very quickly. It is NOT running
a Xerox Image, however. They started with the Byte articles,
and a blank sheet of paper. When The Books finally appeared,
they brought a lot of things into closer conformance,
but it is, without a doubt, Real Smalltalk (that is not
merely my opinion). It supports several different
graphics adaptors, and for $59 they have a system
called "Methods" which uses cursor addressing instead
of bitmapped displays. If you have a fast XT clone
or an AT, or even an XT if you use Methods, and
want to learn something about Smalltalk, (and don't
have a Sun 3/160 running PS at the office!!),
GET DIGITALK's SMALLTALK/V
I met the chaps at the OOPLSA conference and was
mightily impressed by what they have accomplished.
If there is any justice in the world, they will
do very well. They have a fine product and support
it well. Oh yes, you get a REAL Prolog implementation
thrown in for grins with Smalltalk/V, written in
Smalltalk/V, of course.
-Mike O'Dell
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mo From: mo@seismo.CSS.GOV (Mike O'Dell) Newsgroups: net.lang.st80 Subject: Digitalk Smalltalk/V Message-ID: <41899@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> Date: Thu, 30-Oct-86 10:07:53 EST Article-I.D.: beno.41899 Posted: Thu Oct 30 10:07:53 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 30-Oct-86 23:45:23 EST Reply-To: mo@beno.CSS.GOV.UUCP (Mike O'Dell) Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA Lines: 27