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From: sehyo@netcom.com (Sehyo Chang)
Subject: Re: Looking for ParcPlace E-mail/ PC advice
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John Landes (landejm@thp.texaco.com) wrote:

: >>Firstly I tried to mail ParcPlace at info@parcplace.com, but my mail
: >>bounced saying there was no user `info'. Anyone know how to get thro'?

: Try support@parcplace.com

: >>The reason I was mailing them was I'm thinking to buy a new 486 PC to
: >>run ParcPlace's Objectworks\Smalltalk. I know that I need 8meg of RAM,
: >>but what other bits and pieces inside a PC optimize ST performance?

: I run VW on a 486/33 PC with 16Mg memory and a 2Mg video card. Performance 
: is decent. However, I would not run VW with less than 12Mg memory.


: John M. Landes
: RothWell International
: jlandes@rwi.com


Get a least Pentium-90 and 32M of memory.  They are getting very cheap.
You can run on lower platform such as 486 or with <16M; but you are not
going get decent performance.  If you need run on 486, you might want to 
uses Digitalk's older version or get GNU Smalltalk.

-- sehyo chang

