Three guesses as to who the first customer was ....
Cheers,
Alan
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At 3:27 AM +0100 11/2/01, Helge Horch wrote:
At 12:20 27.10.2001 -0800, Alan Kay wrote:
Also, going way back in history, one of the first and most famous systems written in Smalltalk when it came out of Xerox PARC was the Analyst, essentially a big spreadsheet system in which each cell was MVC.
Hmm, the marketing material I have here (for the XSIS product, V2.1 and 3.0) seems to suggest a broad spectrum, along the lines of "integrated application suite." Outliner, Business Charts, Forms, Databases, Maps, Spreadsheets, DTP, etc. An Expert System Shell (HUMBLE) thrown in for good measure. Management of security and access levels. Must have made The Customer quite happy.
BTW, the spreadsheet component ASP, the "Analytic Spreadsheet Package", has been described by Kurt Piersol in the OOPSLA 1986 proceedings, pp. 385--390.
HTH, Helge