Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!vaxine!wjh12!genrad!decvax!ittvax!freb From: freb@ittvax.UUCP (Karl Freburger) Newsgroups: net.lang.st80 Subject: Smalltalk on Lisa Message-ID: <1290@ittvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Feb-84 16:57:19 EST Article-I.D.: ittvax.1290 Posted: Mon Feb 13 16:57:19 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Feb-84 00:25:11 EST Lines: 24 Yes, Apple does have a Smalltalk on the Lisa. No, they don't want to sell it. Last year I spent considerable time trying to convince Apple to sell their Smalltalk, but they weren't interested. Guess they thought it might cut into their sales of Lisa software. I even tried to convince the guy in charge of software products for the Lisa that they should offer Smalltalk as an unsupported product - anything to get it out where I could buy it. Last week a colleague of mine was at a Mac demo and asked again. The Apple-rep there said they were just going to leave the Smalltalk market to Xerox. What they don't seem to realize is that there are people out here (like me) who won't buy a Lisa (or even recommend anyone else buy a Lisa) unless I can have Smalltalk on it. They're missing an opportunity to get a foot in the door here. Oh, well, maybe if everyone out there keeps asking, they'll get the idea. Personally I'd rather spend my company's bucks at a place where they want to sell Smalltalk. If only I could find one... Karl Freburger (decvax!ittvax!freb)