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From: nukala@netcom.com (Ram Nukala)
Subject: Re: VisualAge: What are pluses and minuses
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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 17:45:04 GMT
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jawhite@ibm.net writes:

>What advantages does IBM's VisualAge for Smalltalk have.  What have been your 
>positive experiences?  What do you like about it?

>What disadvantages does the product have.  What have you NOT liked about it?


I never got a chance to evaluate the beta copy which I recieved.
It requires 24 MB minimum ( for the base smalltalk alone. Forget
about other jazzy tools) while I have a modest 8 MB. I can't
figure out why development programs are becoming so much bloated.
Admitted that they are providing more features but still the jump
in resource requirements doesn't make sense. Pray (May be David
Smith or Nguyen?) some one on Visual Age development team
enlighten me. Curious to know what the minimum RAM for a
delivery image for IBM smalltalk is . 

ram
