At 10:49 AM 5/4/98 am, Stephen Travis Pope wrote:
We've moved office last month and, during the packaging, we've found a QIC tape labeled: "Smalltalk-80 Version 2.4 for Sun 386i Workstation, Distribution Set 2/A." Does it worth anything ?
Adding to Glenn Krasner's "bit of history," the tape you have is a ParcPlace v2.4 release. It's not worth anything special,
I'm obliged to point out that it is still protected by (now) ObjectShare copyright, so the code in it can't be used willy-nilly. There are portions of that code which we still want to protect, and there is a lot of that code that is already available and other portions we'd be willing to make available when we get cycles to deal with Sam's request.
except to a collector of software that was actually ported to the 386i...
:-)
glenn
At 10:49 AM 5/4/98 am, Stephen Travis Pope wrote:
We've moved office last month and, during the packaging, we've found a QIC tape labeled: "Smalltalk-80 Version 2.4 for Sun 386i Workstation, Distribution Set 2/A." Does it worth anything ?
Adding to Glenn Krasner's "bit of history," the tape you have is a ParcPlace v2.4 release. It's not worth anything special,
I'm obliged to point out that it is still protected by (now) ObjectShare copyright, so the code in it can't be used willy-nilly. There are portions of that code which we still want to protect, and there is a lot of that code that is already available and other portions we'd be willing to make available when we get cycles to deal with Sam's request.
Too bad it isn't a v2.3 tape. Correct me if I'm wrong, Glenn, but I believe Adele said at OOPSLA that she was making the entire 2.3 image available for free. That would mean you could take methods and classes out of a 2.3 image and port them to Squeak without being requiring to own an ObjectShare license. The same is NOT true of later versions of the ParcPlace/ObjectShare image.
-- John
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