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From: darrelj@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Darrel VanBuer)
Newsgroups: net.lang.st80
Subject: Re: A real Smalltalk product announcement
Message-ID: <1246@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-Aug-84 00:36:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 17 00:36:00 1984
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Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica
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The Tektronics announcement is actually for Pegasus, a successor to the
internal Magnolia machine.  Reportly, the only faster Smalltalk machine is
the ($120k) Xerox Dorado, and has the advantage of a large pointer size.

Smalltalk and Lisp have a number of common features making them both
suitable for AI work.  High among these features are flexible data
structuring tools, an automatic garbage collector, and powerful interactive
debugging tools.  Also, both have been thoroughly integrated into a
multiwindowing, graphic environment (not all lisps of course).

The most outstanding feature of the Pagasus is it's price.  The next lowest
price for a comparable environment is a $26,000 for a Xerox Dandelion
(with Interlisp-D and a real 1024x808 screen).  Machines like Suns aren't
really in this league (yet) because most of the windowing features are just
grafted onto the edges of unix (there isn't a moused-based editor, for
example).

-- 
Darrel J. Van Buer, PhD
System Development Corp.
2500 Colorado Ave
Santa Monica, CA 90406
(213)820-4111 x5449
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