On 10/27/2014 11:53 AM, Malte Timmermann wrote: > Honestly, I don't agree on 30th Anniversary, but see 2015 as 25th > Anniversary. > > StarWriter for text screens was written in Lueneburg near Hamburg. In > Pascal. By people which later didn't work on StarWriter for Windows. > > In 1990, Marco started the new StarDivision location in Hamburg. > StarWriter for GUI systems to be developed from scratch. Written in C++. > By completely different people. > > When I started there in 1991, there was only a Writer prototype, as we > also needed to first develop StarView, the class library for abstracting > from Windows, OS/2, Mac and Unix Motif. Yes, there was a StarWriter Mac > version in the beginning, long before it was canceled, and many years > went by before there was one again! The concept of StarView was to > create native system widgets for their corresponding components. As this > approach lead to different issues, and not all systems had the same set > of widgets, we later replaced StarView with VCL, as you know it today. > > First versions of StarOffice for Windows contained Calc and Draw > developed outside from StarDivision, both using their own technology > stack. Iirc, StarOffice 3.0 was the first version of the suite with all > components based on StarView. > > The English Wiki referenced page below is misleading wrt versions. There > also was a StarWriter 1.0 for Windows, many years after StarWriter 1.0 > for DOS (which already was available in version 6 then). > > The version history is much better documented on the German Wiki page: > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarOffice > > Just some historical data.... :) > > Best regards > Malte.
Well a 25 year anniversary is pretty momentous as well! :) And, thank you for this historical perspective. It would be a great service if someone could get the German and English Wikipedia entries for StarOffice in sync. > > > > On 24.10.2014 17:25, Rob Weir wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Roberto Galoppini >> <roberto.galopp...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> 2014-10-24 16:41 GMT+02:00 Rob Weir <r...@robweir.com>: >>> >>>> Those who know the history know that Apache OpenOffice is the >>>> continuation of the OpenOffice.org project, which itself came from a >>>> proprietary suite developed in Germany called StarOffice, which itself >>>> started as StarWriter, an application written in 1985 by Marco Börries >>>> . >>>> >>>> So next year, in 2015, will be our 30th anniversary. >>>> >>>> Any ideas what we might do? >>>> >>>> For example, does anyone still have a Zilog Z80 (or an emulator) that >>>> can run the original StarWriter? >>>> >>> >>> I'm still a proud owner of a ZX Spectrum Sinclair 48k, never heard >>> about a >>> StarWriter app, though. Does it exist, ideas about to get it? >>> >> >> Cool! >> >> This is from Wikipedia: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarOffice#History >> >> It references a page on our wiki that claims StarWriter 1.0 was >> released in 1985. >> >> No idea where to get the code. Maybe Juergen or another "old-timer" >> would have a clue for us? >> >> -Rob >> >>> Roberto >>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> It looks like some emulators here: >>>> >>>> http://www.z80.info/z80emu.htm#EMU_CPU_W32 >>>> >>>> It might be interesting to show the history of Writer, from release to >>>> release, via a set of screen shots (or a movie) showing the evolution >>>> of the UI. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> -Rob >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: marketing-h...@openoffice.apache.org >>>> >>>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive." -- Andy Grove, Intel Co-founder --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
