ParcPlace Systems
Company founded in 1988 by a number of ex-Xerox people and introduced their first product in the form of VisualWorks for UNIX workstations later the same year. Followed up with OS/2 32bit and MS Windows 16 versions in the early 90's.
Signed an agreement with DEC in 1993 to develop Smalltalk systems for Alpha processors, this raised a few eyebrows in the informatics community since the VisualWorks system was at the time considered the weakest Smalltalk development system available although by the late 90's it had become one of the fastest it still lacked some common features found on other systems and had horrible documentation and support. But this is the reason 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 FACETS - as "Facets/4GL" - Distribution only
- VisualWave
- VisualWorks - Smalltalk development system.
Links
- DEC & ParcPlace co-operative announcement
- ParcPlace to Buy Competing Software Firm (May 23, 1995)
- Software Maker Digitalk to Merge With ParcPlace Systems : Technology: Employees will divide purchase price. Resulting firm will control 80% of market for basic computer language programs. (May 23, 1995)