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which quickly became Visual Smalltalk Enterprise, which you can ask various companies about how that went commercially.
by protomyth 6y ago
which quickly became Visual Smalltalk Enterprise, which you can ask various companies about how that went commercially.
- igouy 6y agoFactually, October 22 1989 — "… an OS/2 version of the Smalltalk language, Smalltalk V/PM … The $500 product is designed to cut the time it takes to prototype user-interface-intensive applications for Presentation Manager." https://www.cbronline.com/news/digitalk_has_first_compiled_version_of_smalltalk_for_os2/ https://www.cbronline.com/news/digitalk_has_first_compiled_v...
- protomyth 6y agoOS/2 didn't move the needle for anyone. Smalltalk V evolved into an unsupported, expensive Smalltalk. Smalltalk never had its Turbo moment.
- igouy 6y ago15 July 1991 — "The package costs $499.95. Registered users of earlier versions of Smalltalk/V Windows can upgrade for $25. … Digital's Smalltalk/V Macintosh will continue to cost $199.95, but eliminates the previous per copy run-time royalty fee." https://books.google.com/books?id=jVAEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA16&dq=digitalk%2Fv%20windows&pg=PA16#v=onepage&q=digitalk/v%20windows&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=jVAEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA16&dq=d... Did Turbo ever have it's enterprisey moment?