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From: cohenb@slc.com (Bruce Cohen)
Subject: Re: release date
In-Reply-To: tmurphy@manifold.win.net's message of Sat, 08 Oct 1994 04:28:37 GMT
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Date: 14 Oct 1994 19:38:34 GMT

In article <85@manifold.win.net> tmurphy@manifold.win.net (Thomas Murphy) writes:

>>   And the first commercial smalltlak was Digitalk in 1985

First release of Smalltalk 80, perhaps.  There was a commercial version
of Smalltalk 72 called "Rosetta Smalltalk" from, naturally, a company
called Rosetta, in Texas somewhere, 1n 1979, I believe.  I briefly used
a version that ran on the Intel iAPX432.  Rosetta died for lack of a
market in 1980 or '81, as far as I can tell.

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