On 11/03/2013 02:06 PM, Upscope wrote: > On Saturday, November 02, 2013 12:46:43 PM Urmas wrote: >> "Les Howell": >> >> Just a simple question, Do you know who originally designed Microsoft >> Office? >> >> Microsoft mostly. >>
/snip/ > Thats not totally correct if I remember right. Office started out as a > joint project between IBM and Microsoft for the original PC. There was a > differnet of directions and MS wnd IBM went there own ways. MS took a > lot of the joint developemt (Stole) with them. we used to use Wordstar > on or PC's. > > Russ > It wasn't originally MS Office, it was just MS Word. It ran on DOS, just like WordStar, but it had some basic word-processing functions listed at the bottom, and it worked with a mouse, if I recall, which WordStar did not. WordStar required a bunch of ctrl-x functions, where x was some keyboard letter. This was, I believe, derived from Teletype terminal days, where some k/b functions we expect, even some found on a typewriter, didn't exist. Functions on a modern k/b, like the up/down/left/right arrows were implemented by ctrl-x. Even backspace, which doesn't exist on a teletype machine--ctrl-h will do it. Even on a few programs today, but not T/Bird--I just tried! I think Word was the first word processor to use a mouse, but I could be wrong. After memorizing all the control functions in WordStar, I stayed with it for quite a while, until WordPerfect came out. I still won't use Word--WP is better, imho. I wish it were still available for Linux. --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers..for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M.Greeley -- 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
