Xerox licensed the initial Smalltalk-80 system (on which Squeak was based) to four companies including Apple in 1980-1981. A couple of years later, Xerox licensed the "Version 2" image more generally--with was the basis of products available from Tektronix on their 4400-series machines, from Softsmarts on PCs, and others.
I don't recall the actual date, but I believe that by 1982 Xerox Special Information Systems had started licensing Smalltalk-80 on the Xerox 1100 ("Dolphin") machines.
ParcPlace Systems, at the time a group within Xerox, shipped its first products in 1986 on Sun workstations.
glenn
At 08:35 AM 5/4/98 -0400, Allen Stoltzfus wrote:
TO: All
I understand that sometime in 81-82 Xerox made Smalltalk available at a
nominal fee. (I believe this was the time that a small company's Rosetta Smalltalk stopped shipping.)
Can you confirm and can you substantiate this date? Or was it later. Thanks.
Allen
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Greetings,
Glenn wrote:
I don't recall the actual date, but I believe that by 1982 Xerox Special Information Systems had started licensing Smalltalk-80 on the Xerox 1100 ("Dolphin") machines.
Yes, I recall seeing Dolphins running Smalltalk in Houston in late 1982 and in Austin in 1983.
-John
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At 10:22 AM 5/4/98 -0700, glenn wrote:
Xerox licensed the initial Smalltalk-80 system (on which Squeak was based) to four companies including Apple in 1980-1981. A couple of years later, Xerox licensed the "Version 2" image more generally--with was the basis of products available from Tektronix on their 4400-series machines, from Softsmarts on PCs, and others.
The Tektronix 4404 including Tektronix Smalltalk which derived from ST-80 V2 was announced in July 1984 and shipped in December 1984.
The ST-80 V1 distribution from Xerox to the 4 initial licensees began in early 1981 and concluded in early 1982.
If anyone really needs to know solid dates for any of these events, I have original documents in my achieves that could be retrieved.
Allen Wirfs-Brock
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