Visual Smalltalk

Visual Smalltalk Enterprise is a Smalltalk development environment based on earlier Digitalk Smalltalk that supports cross platform development and integrates PARTS Workbench that used to be a separate commercial, OS/2 only product but was later ported to MS Windows.

Visual Smalltalk Enterprise runs on Windows and earlier versions supported OS/2. It can build portable OS/2-Windows applications.

• For OS/2 it can incorporate the SOM/DSOM capability for distributed objects.

After the demise of Digitalk the product was licensed by Cincom who sold it for a time but have since stopped development and sales for the product in favour of their own in house Smalltalk development system for MS Windows. They do however still offer paid for defect support for the VSE product.

Versions

PARTS Workbench 2.0

Visual Smalltalk Enterprise 3.1.2a

Prerequisites

OS/2

• Hardware: Intel 486, Pentium
• Operating System: OS/2 3.0 Warp, OS/2 4.0 Warp

OS/2 Warp Connect

• Hardware: Intel 486, Pentium
• Operating System: OS/2 3.0 Warp, OS/2 4.0 Warp

• Visual Smalltalk requires 12 MB minimum memory and 35 MB free disk space.
• Visual Smalltalk Enterprise requires 16 MB minimum memory and 72 MB free disk space.

PARTS Workbench Version 2

• Introduced in 1992
• Requires OS/2 2.0 or higher

License

Commercial. Discontinued.

Link

• VSE Wikipedia

Author

• Digitalk (Original developer)
• Seagull (Current IP owner)
• Cincom homepage (Current developer)

Related Articles

• A review of PARTS Workbench for OS/2 - InfoWorld 1993 - Part of a "Component software" review.