Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!iuvax!pur-ee!pur-phy!cca
From: cca@pur-phy (Charles C. Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Smalltalks for the Mac....
Summary: Digitalk's Smalltalk V/Mac is shipping
Message-ID: <1691@pur-phy>
Date: 3 Dec 88 18:56:54 GMT
References: <7963@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Purdue Univ. Phys Dept, W.Lafayette, IN
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In article <7963@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, dean@uranus.Berkeley.EDU writes:
> Apple's Smalltalk-80 v0.4 from APDA (last version I know of...)

The latest HOOPLA reported that Apple had cancelled their plans to
produce a "MacAppized" Smalltalk.  Drat.

> Digitalk's Smalltalk V/Mac (announced in August, is it shipping yet ?)

They started shipping November 18th.  Computerware is planning on
handling it, MacConnection didn't know last time I checked.

> I know Parc Place Systems also has one, but the price ($995 last I heard) is
> prohibitive, unless they have some _very_ good educational pricing ?

Actually, they do, but only for orders placed through the university.
I've been bothering ParcPlace and National Instruments (makers of
LabVIEW) about student pricing, but I would say the chance of anything
happening is about 0.

Charles Allen			cca@newton.physics.purdue.edu