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From: carlg@world.std.com (Carl E Gundel)
Subject: Re: Smalltalk Challenge
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David N. Smith (dnsmith@watson.ibm.com) wrote:
: Digitalk's first Smalltalk system came (uncompressed) on two 800K
: floppies, as I recall. My first application in Smalltalk was a
: visual language with draggable parts, wires to connect them etc.,
: and it was done under DOS in 640K, including the full development
: environment. And it ran fairly fast on a 286!

: I haven't looked at their DOS version in a long time but I suspect
: it isn't that much bigger.

One of the things I really liked about Smalltalk/V DOS was that it stored 
EVERYTHING in the image file.  So if you didn't need something, you could 
just remove it, and reclaim needed memory.  DLLs make this harder.  
Didn't somebody (was it OTI) actually build a packager for Smalltalk/V 
Windows that could scavenge DLLs and remove stuff?  Where is that product 
today?

Carl
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