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From: rsi@ingorant.scubed.com (Randall Ingermanson)
Subject: Re: Smalltalk based NetPC
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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 21:23:24 GMT
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In article <4i7t48$5cc@betty.bway.net>, swerling@bway.net (Steven Swerling) writes:
|> I know this is speculative bordering on absurdity, but I wonder if
|> anyone has thought about a Smalltalk based NetPC. 

[Lots of interesting stuff deleted.]

|> To tell the truth, I don't see why a Smalltalk vendor shouldn't
|> attempt this. What is it about Java that makes it a better candidate
|> than ST for the OS of NetPC's? Aside from reasons that are not
|> technical (Java's momentum, the fact that Java is owned by Sun, which
|> has zillions of $$), I can only think of edges that ST would have.

On technical grounds, Smalltalk is better than or equal to Java in 
just about every way.  

The reason Java has all that momentum is that it delivers quite a number 
of Smalltalk-like features FOR FREE. 


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