Stewart Stremler wrote: > begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:54:49AM -0700: >> John H. Robinson, IV wrote: >.. >> We call it an "office" suite because that is the convention but everyone >> uses them at home too. Word processing, spreadsheet, etc. > > We call it an "office suite" because that's how M$ marketed the whole > kit-and-kaboodle, I thought. > > Before then, they were just applications. > > You had a spreadsheet application. You had a word processor application. > You had a page layout application. You had a database application. You > had a database query and report generator application. . .
Just for the record, you seem to be forgetting things like Lotus Symphony, Ashton-Tate Framework, and a few more of that ilk, which date back to 1982, it seems. >.. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
