What you forgot to add was the GUI versions of Word, Excel etc.
I used Multiplan on my C64.
Mac came out before Windows I will give you that.
But do not attempt to rewrite history. many programs were out before
the Mac came about.
With the new Graphical interface it did require programming changes
and yes MS did have to develop these programs for the Mac because
there was no Windows.
So of course MS took those programs that they had been developing for
a long time and used the knowledge they had gained writing GUI
versions of Word etc. and made them for the MS Windows version. That
is what is called a smart developer.
The old company I worked for developed programs using Accucobol.
With the advent of Windows Machines (Mid 90's) they had to develop
new programs that would operate under a new GUI. They had to change
programming languages etc.
You remember your version of history I will remember the real version
of history.
Stewart
At 08:20 PM 11/1/2009, you wrote:
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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