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- From: gerard@integow.integrity.nl (Gerard Huysmans)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: Varieties of Smalltalk
- Message-ID: <1658@integow.integrity.nl>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 07:21:23 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.010607.26312@fulcrum.oz.au>
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- steve@fulcrum.oz.au (Steve Taylor) writes:
- : I'd like to move over to another Smalltalk system, but
- : it looks like the field (on intel machines) is pretty limited. The options
- : that I'm aware of are:
- :
- : Digitalk ST/V - even older than ST V/286
- : Digitalk ST/V Windows - don't really want to run MS Windows,
- : but maybe...
- : Digitalk ST/V PM - supposedly pretty good, but I definitely
- : don't want to run OS/2
- : ParcPlace ST/80 - good, but can't afford it.
- : GNU ST - could port it to DOS, via GCC, but it's
- : still basically a tty interface, isn't
- : it? Would prefer a windowing environment
- :
- : My question (and I'm hoping to hear a "yes") is, Have I missed any
- : implementations in this list?
-
- What about the Enfin package (by the EASEL Corporation):
- Enfin/2 Windows SQL v 2.00 - requires MS Windows
- Enfin/3 PM v 1.06 - requires OS/2
-
- I'm new at the Smalltalk business, but to me it looks like the latest versions
- of Enfin are using true Smalltalk instead of their own Smalltalk dialect. As
- far as I could see, Enfin is a complete development environment including a
- graphical interface editor, source code control system, SQL database support
- and a program generator for creation of license free runtimes.
-
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