ParcPlace Systems

ParcPlace Systems Inc. was founded in 1988 by a number of ex-Xerox people and introduced their first product in the form of "ObjectWorks\Smalltalk" (Later renamed to VisualWorks) for UNIX workstations later the same year. Followed up with OS/2 32-bit and MS Windows versions in the early 90s.

Signed an agreement with DEC in 1993 to develop Smalltalk systems for Alpha processors, this is the reason why VisualWorks was one of a very few development systems that supported both UNIX and Windows NT on Alpha processors.

The company merged with Digitalk in 1995 to ParcPlace-Digitalk.

Products

• Objectworks\Smalltalk
• Objectkit\Smalltalk Advanced Programming
• Objectkit\Smalltalk C Programming

• Objectkit\C++
• Objectworks\C++
• Objectbuilder\C++

• Objectworks FACETS - as FACETS\4GL - Distribution only
• VisualWorks - Smalltalk development system.

Personnel

• Adele Goldberg - president and CEO
• Catherine Jaeger - Product Manager, Objectworks for Smalltalk-80
• William P. Lyons

Links

• DEC & ParcPlace co-operative announcement
• ParcPlace to Buy Competing Software Firm - LA Times (May 23, 1995)
• Software Maker Digitalk to Merge With ParcPlace Systems - LA Times (May 23, 1995)]