I have tried to use Self on both sun3 sun4 color and mono displays. The whole thing looks pretty nice and seem to have powerfull ideas to dig in.

From my experience you cannot make a snapshot on a sun4 and run it later

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on a sun3, this was disappointing as I am addicted to Smalltalk-80. This may be an area for future work, although it may be quite q bit of work.

More problematic is that I'd like to start the graphic stuff (UI at least) in monochrome even if I am on a color fb. This saves a looooootttttttt of memory when it's a scarce ressource and when you swap over the net.

One more bad thing is that when you've loaded the ui stuff started it, then back to the command mode, making a snapshot sometimes produces bad files which cannot be run later. I'll compile more info on it if possible.

That's it for the bad points, for the good ones I feel that theconcept of dynamic inheritance may be a very powerful tool for prototyping applications I will soon investigate some more thouroughly the possibilities I just have to find an application to play with.

Keep on the fast lane

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