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


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