On Nov 1, 2009, at 7:49 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
1986 ATT IBM computer had MS Word. DOS version.
"Word for MS-DOS" used the word "Word" in its title, but that program
was nothing like what anyone would associate with M$ Word...
"in Word for MS-DOS, a file would be saved with the sequence Escape-T-
S: pressing Escape called up the menu box, T accessed the set of
options for Transfer and S was for Save..." etc.
Multiplan was multi platform.
Eventually it was.
Neither of these predecessors got any significant sales until they
retooled to copy what was already on the Mac.
Of course with WFBs thinking the Zune is equivalent to the iPod Touch,
so there is no telling what kind of wild claims may be made.
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