[Am-info] query about MS "Innovations"

[madodel@ptdprolog.net]

In <200203300102.g2U12ioK074483@silver.ttlc.net>, on 03/29/02 at 08:02 PM,
   "Erick Andrews" <eandrews@star.net> said:

>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.

Lotus had a DOS integrated WP, spreadsheet, database called Symphony back
in 85-87 I think.  It didn't do anything well, but it was integrated. 
Pretty much a spreadsheet (based on 1-2-3 I guess) that could do other
things.  When did m$ come out with its first office suite?  I don't recall
one for DOS, just the separate Word and Multiplan products.  There never
was an Excel for DOS as far as I recall.  I used Multiplan, which came
with my first puter, a Heath Z151 (an 8086 pc clone that I built myself
when building a computer meant a bit more then inserting a couple of cards
in a motherboard :-).  When m$ came out with Excel, it was windoze only,
which meant one had to buy a new machine, or you were stuck with
Multiplan, which m$ abandoned.  That was my first lesson on how m$ would
screw everyone.


Mark

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