Subj : Re: German state moving 30,00
To   : Tiny
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sat Apr 06 2024 10:16:00

-=> Tiny wrote to NITER3 <=-

 Ti> On my home computers I use Wordperfect office 6.2 for dos.  The fingers
 Ti> just know where all the keys are, and the spreadsheet math is all the
 Ti> same anyway.  I will admit I have Libreoffice installed if I need to
 Ti> convert to a modern format or if I need to deal with modern documents.

I posted somewhere recently about an alt.history of the web - I'll have
to look it up. Digital Research signed the deal with IBM, but kept the
rights to CP/M, made a GUI with GEM desktop, merged with WordPerfect,
then bought Cello browser and ended up with the market running a GUI,
browser and office suite tied together with the early web in the mid
'90s, around the time Microsoft Windows 95 came out.

In this world, I wonder if Gary Kildall and Digital Research would have
turned out differently from the predatory business practices of  Bill
Gates and Microsoft at the time?




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