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From: mbondr@netcom.com (Mark Bondurant)
Subject: Re: Little Smalltalk for Mac wanted.
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Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 19:34:39 GMT
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How about for the PC?  I'm a night student who needs a Smalltalk he can
use at home (can't make it school during lab hours because of work).  I
have a feeling that I'm going to be very enamoured with this language
and I do want a realistic/useful work environment.

Which brings up my second point.  What is a reasonable work environment?
Under windows I assume it's going to be something functionally like th
foundation classes and in OS/2 it will output to presentation manager.
It will need to access other things though, like databases and printers.
Will I have to buy additional class libraries for these things or will
I have to write my own?

Most confusing of all is Unix/Linux.  Does it create X clients or
character based windows in bash?  I have linux on my machine, but
only 8 meg of RAM.  Is this enough or do I need 16 or 32 (ack, gag!!  
I'm just a student...)?  I heard Smalltalk/X is free and seems to be
well liked, but does it follow the Parcplace Paradigm or the Digitalk
paradigm (my teacher wants me to stick to Parcplace)?  

What did you guys do learn all this.  Did somebody just buy you a copy
(I'm have a hard time just getting an upgrade to Windows from my bosses)
did you buy your own, or is there a trick to this?

Mark

