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From: lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Subject: Re: Object Technology: What will JAVA do that Smalltalk won't do?
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In article <44t65p$21t@ixnews6.ix.netcom.com>,
Alan Lovejoy  <lovejoya@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
:In <44sjfg$ml8@odin.sunquest.com> Bill Burcham
:<billb@sunquest.sunquest.com> writes: 
:>
:>..it be running on _most_ PC's in one year ;)
:>
:
:Smalltalk runs on _most_ PC's, on Macs and on UNIX now.  It has been
:doing so for the better part of a decade.
:

Well, Smalltalk may be available in a form that would run on most IBM
PCs, Macintoshes and on many Unix platforms now, but it is not _running_
on most of them.  The previous poster was however I believe indicating
that Java would indeed be _on_ most of the actual machines.
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