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I very much doubt that Smalltalk-80 was fun to use on a lowly PC-AT ;-) This was -- USD 199.95 Smalltalk/V286 March 7, 1988. https://books.google.com/books?id

• rjsw 11y ago
  Smalltalk/V (not 286) was perfectly usable on a PC of the day, I ran it on an Olivetti M24 with a paper white display. The Smalltalk-80 flyer states that an 8MHz 286 was faster than a Xerox Dolphin and 20% of the speed of a Xerox Dorado. The painful part would have been the display, they were just using EGA (640x350) so you couldn't see much at one time. I saw a demo of this and don't remember thinking that it was too slow.
  • igouy 11y ago
    Back-in-the-day I did not consider Smalltalk/V usable, that changed with V286 :-)