[Am-info] query about MS "Innovations"

[Erick Andrews]

On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 17:05:06 -0500, Felmon Davis wrote:

>On Friday 29 March 2002 04:31 pm, Erick Andrews wrote:
>> On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 14:40:57 -0500, Felmon Davis wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> >ad (b): no one has spoken to this. I thought Geoworks and
>> > something called Multiplan preceded Windows. (is the latter a MS
>> > invention?)
>>
>> If you mean MS Windows as a GUI, I recall we had a discussion about
>> that here some years ago.  It went through Apple, XWindows, Xerox,
>> DECWindows and maybe some others.  I don't remember in detail the
>> timeline, but GUI's were around before MS Windows.
>
>no, I think what was meant was either the data exchange stuff among 
>apps (OLE, DDE) or putting apps together conveniently in an office 
>suite like MS Office, PerfectOffice, Smartsuite, StarOffice, Koffice, 
>Clarisworks and whatever else.
>

OK.  Then if it's before GUI's, it must substantively have been "green uglies" 
or [MS]DOS.  There were "office suites" then, like "Works".  I don't
recall much about "interoperability" between them, though.

-- 
Erick Andrews