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Images can be saved out as files, so I don't see why not. Also, I recall it was the expensive commercial licensing along with the rise of cheap PCs as competiti

Images can be saved out as files, so I don't see why not. Also, I recall it was the expensive commercial licensing along with the rise of cheap PCs as competition to Lisp and ST machines. That and Java being free with a focus on networking and the web was the final nail in squashing Lisp or ST popularity.

igouy 3mo ago
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&dq=digitalk%20v%2F286&pg=PA25#v=onepage&q=digitalk%20v%2F286&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=CD8EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA25&dq=d... September 1991 — "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...
- galaxyLogic 3mo ago
  Good pointers. But Claude Code is even more expensive.
  - igouy 3mo ago
    Back in the day those were not unusual costs for programming tools. (Beer wasn't free.)
    - galaxyLogic 3mo ago
      There's no such thing as free beer
igouy 3mo ago
Java being free-as-in-beer.