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From: dbrunner@hslrswi.hasler.ascom.ch (Dierk Brunner)
Subject: Re: Visual Age
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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1994 11:52:29 GMT
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In article kq8@cerberus-138.wustl.edu, todd@mapper.wustl.edu (Todd Steinbrueck) writes:
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>Can somebody help me out with some jargon floating around?
>
>First of all, I know IBM is the maker of Visual Age.

OTI, the inventor of the Smalltalk team work tool Envy, developed VisualAge and
sold it to IBM. IBM intends to make VisualAge available on all IBM platforms
(from the PC up to their mainframe computers).

>But then I hear something
>about Agents.  Is the so-called SmalltalkAgents?  And what is QKS, and what is
>their relationship to SmalltalkAgents?

QKS developed SmalltalkAgents for the Macintosh 68K platform. Versions for the
PowerMacintosh, Windows and Unix will be available soon.

VisualAge and VisualAgents are two completely independent Smalltalk implementation.

	Dierk Brunner


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