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From: cohenb@slc.com (Bruce Cohen)
Subject: Re: Smalltalk is no good for shrink/wrap
In-Reply-To: johnson@sal.cs.uiuc.edu's message of 8 Apr 1995 17:13:18 GMT
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Date: 20 Apr 1995 19:28:43 GMT

In article <3m6g7e$34v@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> johnson@sal.cs.uiuc.edu (Ralph Johnson) writes:
>>    We all wish the Smalltalk took less memory.  If your application
>>    must run in a small amount of memory then Smalltalk is probably not
>>    suited for it.  However, I can remember learning about 5 years ago
>>    that the high-end Tektronix oscillascopes contained 1 meg of C code
>>    in ROM.  Unix venders seem to be thinking that 64 meg is typical.

At about the same time another Tektronix scope contained ROM code
written in Smalltalk.  Several variants were built and sold, with
different versions of that code to manage different hardware
functionality in the scope.  Turned out to be a very cost-effective way
to develop code for oscilloscopes.

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