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From: johnk@spasm.niddk.nih.gov (John Kuszewski)
Subject: Re: opinions wanted: VisualAge, VisualWorks, Digitalk
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Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 19:51:40 GMT
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In article <3nr3l5$2v7@nntp.interaccess.com>, sames@interaccess.com (Sames Shuster) writes:
|> Stephen Travis Pope <stp@CNMAT.Berkeley.edu> wrote:
|> >>I've used all three systems
|> 
|> Musta been a LONG Time ago!
|> 
|> >>I consider it the only serious, stable, high-performance, portable alternative.
|> 
|> Again, musta been a LONG Time ago!
|> 
|> >>Digitalk's stuff is nice enough, but their class libraries are written in a 
|> >>rather low-level and un-reusable style. They also only support DOS and the 
|> >>Mac, and their versions aren't even portable among each other.
|> 
|> Again, Again, musta been a LONG Time ago!  DT supports Windows 16Bit,
|> Windows 32Bit, Windows NT, OS/2 and Mac.  (To my knowledge, they
|> haven't actively sold the DOS version for over three years!) The

Digitalk also discontinued the Mac version.  Exactly *when* did you 
look at DT?  Musta been a LONG time ago!  

I do agree, though, that ParcPlace's GUI implementation is beyond awful.
My experiences with PP's support people defy description.

The only Smalltalk that does a decent job on the Mac is SmalltalkAgents.


|>                            And So It Goes
|>                                 Sames

Indeed.

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