Visual Smalltalk Enterprise - History

History

VSE has had a complicated history which starts with a product called Digitalk Smalltalk/V that ran from a DOS prompt and provided a windowing environment.

  • Smalltalk/V
  • Smalltalk/V 286
  • Smalltalk/V PM
  • Smalltalk/V Win
  • Visual Smalltalk Enterprise (VSE)

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.

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