SUMMARY: Smalltalk for Alpha?

From: Liz Stewart <liz_at_ece.neu.edu>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 14:49:02 -0500 (EST)

Sorry for the delay in my summary.
 
The original question was:
 
> Does anyone have a hacked-for-OSF version of GNU smalltalk out
> there, or know of any other smalltalk compilers around I
> could get for the alpha? I am running OSF/1 3.0 and 3.2.
> Thanks!
 
I got back three responses. One person told me to ftp to
gatekeeper.dec.com and get /pub/gnu/smalltalk*. This was the same
version I got from prep.ai.mit.edu, so this was not the answer for me.
Another said that GNU was working on a new release of SmallTalk which
would support Alphas. When this will be coming out is unknown; the
software is still in the alpha stage (no pun intended).
 
The third mentioned a commercial package called VisualWorks by
ParcPlace-Digitalk which is ported to the Alpha. He also said that
the GNU smalltalk class libraries are suspect at best, because of bugs
and bad design decisions.
 
I think I will just have my research student(s) run GNU smalltalk on
the Ultrix platform for now, and figure things out for themselves.
:-)
 
My thanks to those who responded:
Sean Watson (swatson_at_ultrix6.cs.csubak.edu)
Tim Mooney (mooney_at_dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu)
Ian Piumarta (piumarta_at_prof.inria.fr)

 
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