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Re:Airbus Chooses GNAT Pro Ada for Development of Unmanned A... by igouy on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @01:05PM (#24494660)
March 7, 1988 — "Smalltalk/V 286 is available now and costs $199.95, the company said. Registered users of Digitalk's Smalltalk/V can upgrade for $75 until June 1."

https://books.google.com/books?id=CD8EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA25&ots=...

Re:Airbus Chooses GNAT Pro Ada for Development of Unmanned A... by protomyth on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @01:09PM (#24494722)
which quickly became Visual Smalltalk Enterprise, which you can ask various companies about how that went commercially.
Re:Airbus Chooses GNAT Pro Ada for Development of Unmanned A... by igouy on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @01:30PM (#24494972)
Factually, October 22 1989 — "… an OS/2 version of the Smalltalk language, Smalltalk V/PM … The $500 product is designed to cut the time it takes to prototype user-interface-intensive applications for Presentation Manager."

https://www.cbronline.com/news/digitalk_has_first_compiled_v...

Re:Airbus Chooses GNAT Pro Ada for Development of Unmanned A... by protomyth on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @02:30PM (#24495766)
OS/2 didn't move the needle for anyone. Smalltalk V evolved into an unsupported, expensive Smalltalk. Smalltalk never had its Turbo moment.
Re:Airbus Chooses GNAT Pro Ada for Development of Unmanned A... by igouy on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @04:06PM (#24497066)
15 July 1991 — "The package costs $499.95. Registered users of earlier versions of Smalltalk/V Windows can upgrade for $25. …

Digital's Smalltalk/V Macintosh will continue to cost $199.95, but eliminates the previous per copy run-time royalty fee."

https://books.google.com/books?id=jVAEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA16&dq=d...

Did Turbo ever have it's enterprisey moment?