Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site randvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!randvax!obrien From: obrien@randvax.ARPA (Michael O'Brien) Newsgroups: net.lang.st80 Subject: Re: Smalltalk on Lisa Message-ID: <1721@randvax.ARPA> Date: Fri, 24-Feb-84 19:50:22 EST Article-I.D.: randvax.1721 Posted: Fri Feb 24 19:50:22 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 13:43:41 EST References: <1708@randvax.ARPA> Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica Lines: 6 I have heard that the real reason Apple doesn't want to sell Smalltalk on the Lisa is that it runs at about 5% of the speed of the (standalone) implementation Peter Deutsch did for the Sun workstation. If you want a 68000-based Smalltalk engine you're probably better off talking to Sun (except that their marketing division [at least] appears to have serious problems doing things like returning phone calls).