Subj : Re: M vs P again but C= too.
To   : JEAN PARROT
From : Alan Zisman
Date : Tue Sep 27 2005 09:31 am

-=> JEAN PARROT wrote to ALAN ZISMAN <=-

 JP>         Hello Alan, we were saying !

 AZ> Quite a few well-known Windows programs were originally Mac programs,
 AZ> including some such as Excel and even Word.... Microsoft was an
 AZ> original Mac-developer, releasing a number of Mac programs
 AZ> simulaneously with the January 1984 release of the Mac hardware, and
 AZ> got pre-release access to the Mac hardware and operating system.

 JP>         I hope that you read my note to Charles S.. I was on MS PRGs
 JP>   before these dates. And they all ran good and small to fit on 128
 JP>   kbs of RAM. Yeeeeks !

 AZ>  and Excel was originally Mac-only, as were most of the Adobe
 AZ> applications, and others).

 JP>         Have you heard about MultiPlan ? I think that my 5.25" floppy
 JP>   was dated 1980. (???) Not as many bells and whistles but it worked.


 I actually had to track down a version of Multiplan 1.0 recently to help 
someone read some data files stored on an old floppy diskette...
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