Stewart Stremler wrote: > 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. >
Yeah, wikipedia has some info. (see: Lotus Symphony) Microsoft Works is in the same crowd, and there are a couple others. I think some early concepts of look-n-feel and possibly data sharing (embedding?) came from those. Actually the bundling concept _may_ have started with Osborne (CPM), which shipped WordStar, SuperCalc and DBaseII as part of the $1795 package. Regards ..jim someday I'll have to see if mine still runs -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
