baldwin linguas wrote: > I can remember writing college papers with Clarisworks. > And there was Wordperfect from Corel. > Although, I'm uncertain whether these were before or after MSOffice. > I saw them both before I ever heard of MSOffice, though. > > Let's see...Clarisworks was released 1984. > StarOffice (Sun) was released in 1985. > Lotus 1 2 3 was released in 1983, but apparently Lotus Notes wasn't until > 1989. > Wordperfect for DOS was released in 1989. > > And MSOffice was released in 1991. > > Of course, neither Staroffice (Sun), Lotus (IBM) nor Wordperfect > (Corel), had a full suite, initially, > as far as I am aware, but Clarisworks/Appleworks did, well before MSOffice. > OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice, of course, are both children of the > old StarOffice.
I used to use PC-Write on DOS many years ago. IIRC, the same company had a spreadsheet and database available. Of course, if we don't limit ourselves to PCs, the mainframe and minicomputer world had "office" software long before there was such a thing as a PC. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
