Peter Fisk needs a small correction hee:

A company which did survive the transition was Digitalk which did an absolutely brilliant job of porting Smalltalk/V to Windows. After writing Windows applications in C, the experience of using Digitalk Smalltalk (1.0 and 2.0) was a total liberation. Forget about the mixed-mode pointers; make a window? - no problem! And I wasn’t the only one to feel that way. By the end of 1994, there was a thriving community of Digitalk developers.

Of course, it didn’t last - Digitalk never brought out a 32-bit version.

In fact, not only did they bring out a 32 bit version, they brought out a Windows/95 logo certified edition - Visual Smalltalk (and the enterprise edition, VSE). Digitalk then merged with ParcPlace, and things got all wonky (no need to go into that here). Point is, not only did Digitalk come out with a 32 bit edition - they got out early, and got it logo certified.

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