What I can only say is, in 1986 (freshman year of high school), learning AppleWorks was a required course, taught on the school's Apple IIe lab. Not only was it required, but after that, ALL teachers (except for math), required homework to be done on AppleWorks. If you could not afford a IIe, then the lab was always open. My mom, at this time, put herself through graduate school. She did her entire thesis on AppleWorks. She had to fill up 10 5.25" disks. She had bought a IIe back in 1984, because we were being taught it, BASIC programming in grade school. Our IIe had nothing, except for a very expensive Imagewriter II printer. No memory, nada. I had used Appleworks faithfully ever since 1986. It was only in 1999, when my IIe (which my mom had long ago had given me) crashed. Because I depended on Appleworks for my job, I was forced to learn ClarisWorks 4.0 on my Mac. It took me awhile to buy a "new" IIe, fully loaded, of course. I bought Classic Appleworks 5.0 (updated by Bev for Y2k, last version is 5.1). At this time I learned of the program Deja ][. It is an AppleWorks emulator for the Mac. I still use Classic Appleworks daily, but more so on the Deja ][. I had a very simple DB file for my job. Robert Boucher put in countless hours of work, converting my DB into a powerful DB. All 60 columns are used, each one doing a calculation of its own. If I need things to "look pretty", I'll use AppleWorks 6.0.4 for the Mac. But for speed, I'll use Classic Appleworks. Although I haven't learned all there is too know about the Mac version, I will go out on a limb and suggest that the classic version is more powerful (thanks to TimeOut). Anyways, Claris had originally owned Appleworks V3.0 (Claris was the original creator of Appleworks). I believe Claris abandoned Appleworks by version 4.0, now owned by Quality Computers. Claris went on (with the creators of TimeOut, I believe), to create the version we use for our Macs. By the time version 5.0 of this came out, Apple (again, original creator of the classic), took over ClarisWorks. Apple decided that no one is using the classic version anymore, so they renamed ClarisWorks to AppleWorks. Steven > From: "Rodney A. Hoiseth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Apple2list) > Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 13:30:10 +0900 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Apple2list) > Subject: Appleworks vs ClarisWorks vs AppleWorks <-- (was "Re: parenthesis vs > minus sign") > > Hi, there, y'all. > Rodney, here. > I guess I should have lurked a while longer and kept my big mouth shut... > > If there's anything I hate worse than admitting my ignorance, it's > demonstrating it. > Now that the worst is behind me <sheepish grin> can somebody please > help me recover my honor. (Didn't somebody once say "There's no > dishonor in ignorance but there's no honor in ignoring it"? ... or > did I make that up?) > > I've spent most of the morning going through the Apple Knowledge Base > and Apple Knowledge Archives trying to figure out what I'm missing. > My [obviously mistaken] understanding had been that ClarisWorks was > an original application, created by Claris, that evolved up to v. CW > 5 and then was bought out by Apple, the name changed to AppleWorks > (beginning with v. AW5) and then evolving to AW 6. Now I'm getting > the impression that there's something else to the story. > > Could somebody please set me straight. What's the difference between > AppleWorks, ClarisWorks, and AppleWorks (or maybe I should say "... > between apples and oranges..." ;-) ? > > Thanks a lot and best regards, > Rodney > (eating humble pie in Hayama, Japan) > > PS I'm sure y'all realized I was just trying to be helpful. -- Apple2list is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Apple2list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/apple2.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/apple2list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
