OK I was thinking of Multiplan, which was the first spread sheet program from MS.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 1:21 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Official Windows booter for Mac from Apple > > Nope. Excel was definetely Mac first. > > Excel was originally written for the 512K Apple Macintosh in > 1984-1985. Excel was one of the first spreadsheets to use a graphical > interface with pull down menus and a point and click capability using > a mouse pointing device. The Excel spreadsheet with a graphical user > interface was easier for most people to use than the command line > interface of PC-DOS spreadsheet products. Many people bought Apple > Macintoshes so that they could use Bill Gates' Excel spreadsheet > program. There is some controversy about whether a graphical version > of Microsoft Excel was released in a DOS version. Microsoft documents > show the launch of Excel 2.0 for MS-DOS version 3.0 on 10/31/87. > - Brief History of Spreadsheets > (http://dssresources.com/history/sshistory.html) > > Word was originally DOS, but the first gui version was Mac > Microsoft Office Word is a word processing application from Microsoft. > It was originally written by Richard Brodie for IBM PCs running DOS in > 1983. Later versions were created for the Apple Macintosh (1984), SCO > UNIX, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows (1989). It became part of the > Microsoft Office suite. > - Wikipedia, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms_word) > > On 4/5/06, Nick McClure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Huh? The first versions of word and excel were for Dos. I don't recall > mac > > versions for a little while after that. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 1:03 PM > > > To: CF-Community > > > Subject: Re: Official Windows booter for Mac from Apple > > > > > > Most of the early business apps that took over the market started out > > > on the Mac. MS Excel for instance was Mac first and when it finally > > > moved to Windows it kicked VisiCalc and Lotus1-2-3 in the balls. Word > > > too. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:202872 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
