begin quoting James G. Sack (jim) as of Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:52:00AM -0700: > Stewart Stremler wrote: [snip] > > 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.
Ah, aren't those IBM PC things? I've never even *seen* any of 'em. I came by a different path. I wasn't subjected to the IBM world until the 90's. Thanks for the correction. -- Maybe it's a philosophy thing. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
