Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site enmasse.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!enmasse!dave From: dave@enmasse.UUCP (Dave Brownell) Newsgroups: net.internat Subject: Re: What do we REALLY want? (Smalltalk!) Message-ID: <484@enmasse.UUCP> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 23:13:03 EST Article-I.D.: enmasse.484 Posted: Thu Oct 24 23:13:03 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 04:40:16 EST References: <723@inset.UUCP> <960@erix.UUCP> <311@graffiti.UUCP> Reply-To: dave@enmasse.UUCP (Dave Brownell) Organization: Enmasse Computer Corp., Acton, Mass. Lines: 19 In article <311@graffiti.UUCP> peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: >> ... Of course I could build these on top of UNIX, but >> why bother when I can buy other systems like SmallTalk with all these things >> anyway? > > Because you can't get SmallTalk (if you ever considered UNIX to be a resource > hog, have a look at SmallTalk some time), and the Mac user interface is > running on a horrid CP/M-like operating system. You CAN TOO get smalltalk on a Mac !!! I've seen it and it actually looks good (thanks Mark!) on a 1 Mb Mac with a hard disk. Though you're right about SmallTalk needing memory -- I wouldn't want to run it on a 512K Mac, or without a hard disk. But it IS available, and from Apple at that. (See discussions on INFO-MAC, and the next SMUG meeting.) -- David Brownell EnMasse Computer Corp ...!{harvard,talcott,genrad}!enmasse!dave