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> Price is one of the main factors, for sure. March 7, 1988 — "Smalltalk/V 286 is available now and costs $199.95, the company said. Registered users of Digita
by igouy 4y ago
> Price is one of the main factors, for sure.
March 7, 1988 — "Smalltalk/V 286 is available now and costs $199.95, the company said. Registered users of Digitalk's Smalltalk/V can upgrade for $75 until June 1."
https://books.google.com/books?id=CD8EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA25&ots=jiXJNN0ii3&dq=digitalk%20v%2F286&pg=PA25#v=onepage&q=digitalk%20v/286&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=CD8EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA25&ots=...
> … I can tell you, it was very, very slow…
And of-course you used the Smalltalk profiler to fix that?
- hota_mazi 4y agoThat's the developer license. The price to deploy was... close to absurd.
- igouy 4y agoNo, $199.95. You must be thinking of different software from a different vendor. Here's the "Smalltalk/V 286" Digitalk License Statement — http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/SmalltalkVTutorial/SmalltalkVTutorial.pdf http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/SmalltalkVTutorial... And by 1991, with Smalltalk/V Windows and Smalltalk/V PM — "Smalltalk/V code is portable between the Windows and the OS/2 versions. And the resulting application carries no runtime charges. All for just $499.95." (Advert on the last page of "The Smalltalk Report") https://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/Archives/TheSmalltalkReport/PDFS/ST/91_95/SMAL0101.PDF https://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/Archives/TheSmalltalkRepor...
- igouy 4y ago"Digitalk, Inc. announced new versions of Smalltalk/V DOS and Smalltalk/V Mac that include royalty-free runtime. Smalltalk/V Windows and Smalltalk/V PM are already royalty free. … Prior to this new policy, there was a per-copy charge for runtime applications." September 1991 "The Smalltalk Report" p25 https://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/Archives/TheSmalltalkReport/PDFS/ST/91_95/SMAL0101.PDF https://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/Archives/TheSmalltalkRepor...