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From: tblanch@lookout (Todd Blanchard)
Subject: Re: VisualWorks 2.0 on PowerMac
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Howard Hui (howardh@bcaa.bc.ca) wrote:

: We have extensive discussion with ParcPlace people and what we gathered
: was PowerMac is not one of the supported platforms, period.  It means
: that if you can get VW to run on a PowerMac, good luck, but they are
: not going to answer any question or solve any problem for you if they
: knew that you are running it on a PowerMac.  Please noticed that this
: statement not only valid for VW 2.0 but also for VW 1.x too!

: It crashed on my 8100 using System 7.1 too. ( Not suprise)

: For all the PowerMac users, I guess we have to wait for PP to release
: the PowerMac native verion of VW.  For the time being, go back to our
: 68K Mac.  Who said that a PowerMac is just another Mac!

This is surprising to me.  Everything I used to use on my Mac II runs
fine on my PMac 8100.  If VW won't run under emulation, it must be some
pretty skanky crud.

My version of SmalltalkAgents runs fine under emulation on my PMac and a
native is due Q1 95.

Todd Blanchard
