from the famous dave thomas a story about smalltalk: travels with smalltalk .

During 1987-1989 we had the opportunity to work with Digitalk to develop ST/V Mac using machines loaned to us from Alan Kay. Few realized that Alan dreamed of a new generation Macintosh to support his ambitious Vivarium project, hence the "V". Smalltalk/V Mac was the first Smalltalk to support the look and feel of the Mac. When it was first shown at OOPSLA '88, the Mac look was completely emulated-- much to the surprise and upset of some Mac aficionados. While Apple canceled its ST effort, and encouraged its early developers to move to ST/V, Apple failed to put the momentum behind Smalltalk and lost its leadership position in interactive programming tools.

you can find nearly everyone in that little text who was/is involved in different smalltalk groups.

personally i was just trying to get confirmation on a story adele goldberg told, starting with the sentence: i tell you a story, and i don´t know if i have ever told anyone" (if you hear something like this, your neurons are motivated, claro :)). with the following paragraph i would say it is confirmed.

XSIS and The Customer Information Analyst Why would Xerox develop an incredible spreadsheet that could display images, conjugate Russian verbs and why did that happen in a strange group called XSIS located in Los Angeles and Washington? Apparently they had an important customer with a lot of complex information to analyze. How did Angela Coppola know that 1000 people would show up for OOPSLA'86 when the PC committee predicted 100-200? What sort of technology could the National Security Administration use to print Chinese leaflets circa 1978? The Xerox Analyst served the CIA as a analytic tool for many years. Even 13 years later it still offers tools more powerful than MSOffice. The Analyst is still alive and well and forms a key component in TI ControlWorks Wafer Fab Automation System.

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