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From: akon@bsi.co.jp (Atsushi Konno)
Subject: Re: What's Modular Smalltalk?
In-Reply-To: terry@zoe.network23.com's message of Wed, 08 Feb 1995 21:42:38 -0500
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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 06:15:31 GMT
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In article <2f39811e.5a4f45@zoe.network23.com> terry@zoe.network23.com (Terry Raymond) writes:

   >>>>Some (former?) Tek people published at least one paper on Modular Smalltalk 
   >>>>several years ago at an early OOPSLA. Search past proceedings and you'll find 
   >>>>it.
   >>>
   >>>BTW As far as I know Modular Smalltalk was only ever a research project. Tek 
   >>>did sell workstations with Smalltalk-80. The only major extension to that in 
   >>>commercial form that I know if is their version that had color!
   >>>
   >>>What if the Tek 440x became the personal computer of today, with Smalltalk as 
   >>>the main language? Wow.
   >>>
   >>>I remember back in 1988 it appeared that Tek as a whole was giving up 
   >>>Smalltalk to use C++. I wonder how Tek views that move now? What if they had 
   >>>continued to improve their Smalltalk all this time?
   >>>
   >>
   >>The Tek smalltalk was guite good and an environment superior to ParcPlace ST.
   >>But it appears to me that Tek was more interested in selling hardware than
   >>software.  It was probably a good economic decision to drop the product line
   >>because I doubt they would have done well selling the hardware.  But, if they
   >>had been willing, they probably could have spun off a successful Smalltalk product.
   >>
   >>Oh yeah, the programmer had better control over the color pallet than the current
   >>ParcPlace products.  How can an ST app compete against C or C++ for glitz with
   >>such poor control over color, I'm refering to PP???
   >>
   >>--
   >>Terry Raymond                          Telephone: 1-401-846-6144
   >>terry@zoe.network23.com

Thanks, Everbody. I understood the Tek was out of the Smalltalk
buiness. Regret!
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0o. Atsushi Konno ----- Bussan Systems Integration Co., Ltd. .oO
