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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Re: Digitalk... The end...
Message-ID: <1995Feb27.142939.9795@wavehh.hanse.de>
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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 95 14:29:39 GMT
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heller@asterix.uni-muenster.de (Thomas Heller) writes:

>Martin Cracauer (cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de) wrote:

>: IBM's Smalltalk is a bytecode interpreter, Digitalk (and PPS) compile
>                                             ^^^^^^^^
>: to native machine code. 

>Is this also true for ST/V Win 2.0 (which i own?)

I don't know when exactly Digitalk switched, but the old DOS
Smalltalk/V is for sure no native compiler, while the 32-bit Windows
versions are, AFAIK. Bon't know about the first OS/2 versions.
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