Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!usc!bloom-beacon!spdcc!merk!alliant!linus!mbunix!bwk From: bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Barry W. Kort) Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk Subject: Re: Smalltalk/V286 vs Smalltalk-80? Summary: V/286 is good for DOS environments. Message-ID: <72455@linus.UUCP> Date: 27 Sep 89 15:31:47 GMT References: <208700003@s.cs.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@linus.UUCP Reply-To: bwk@mbunix (Barry Kort) Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, Mass. Lines: 23 In article <208700003@s.cs.uiuc.edu> haskins@s.cs.uiuc.edu asks about Smalltalk-80 vs. Digitalk Smalltalk V/286. I have used ParcPlace Smalltalk-80 on the Sun and on the Mac. I have used Digitalk Smalltalk V/286 on DOS machines and Digitalk Smalltalk V/Mac. I found I could convert from V/286 to Smalltalk-80 or to V/Mac with a day or two of editing the file-ins. The biggest problem was with Forms, Character Scanners, and Menus. These tend to differ in substantial ways across dialects and platforms. But the problems are not insurmountable. One problem with V/286 is that it does not run on my AT&T PC 6300 Plus. I like Smalltalk V/Mac on my Mac II. I think it is the best implementation of the ones I have used. The only shortcoming which has been a problem is the limited support for color. V/286 has a nice support for EGA color. --Barry Kort