Visual Smalltalk Enterprise: Difference between revisions

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| developer = Digitalk (1986–19991986–1995)

| developer = Parc Place Systems/Digitalk (1995-1997)

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| discontinued = yes

| latest_release_version = VSE v3.2.0 (aka VSE2000)

| latest_release_date = {{Release date and age|19992000-09}}

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| OS = [MS-DOS, Windows, OS/2]

| language = English

| status = UnknownUnmaintained

| genre = [[Integrated Development Environment]]

| license = [[Commercial software|Commercial]]

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'''Visual Smalltalk Enterprise''' (VSE) is a [[Smalltalk]] dialect that runs only on Microsoft Windows, and is the last in a long line of Smalltalk implementations first produced by Digitalk and now available through Cincom.

Active development has stopped since aroundlate 19991997<ref>{{cite web|last1=Hoyer|first1=Henrik|title=Is Cincom slowly killing Visual Smalltalk Enterprice|url=http://forum.world.st/Is-Cincom-slowly-killing-Visual-Smalltalk-Enterprice-td2513847.html|website=SmallTalk forum|accessdate=2015-12-23}}</ref> and VSE is now only available as a version called VSE 2000, and only to licensed users of previous VSE versions.

==History==

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* Smalltalk/V Win (1991, [[Windows 3.x]])

* Visual Smalltalk Enterprise (VSE) (1992, [[Windows 3.x]])

* Visual Smalltalk Enterprise 3.0 (1995, [[Windows 95]])

In reality, before Smalltalk/V, there was a product, the first one from Digitalk, named Methods. The windowing interface was not graphically based - instead it drew its windows using special symbols stored in a character format. Further, it predated the use of a mouse to drive the interface.

There have also been versions of Smalltalk/V for the Apple Macintosh and IBM OS/2 operating systems. A version for OS/2 was also available for VSE.

In july 1995 ParcPlace and Digitalk merged, later renaming the company to ObjectShare, and in 1997 the company announcement it was moving away from Smalltalk and focus towards Java.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Levez|first1=Belinda|title=Reconstructed timeline for Visual Smalltalk from Digitalk|url=http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/236072.html|website=Google Answers|accessdate=2016-03-20}}</ref>

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