Rich wrote:
In infinite wisdom Exegete answered:Bill Garber wrote:[...]check your sources. MicroSoft has more to do with thesuccess of Apple than anyone chooses to admit.Lotus Development Corp. had more to do with it that Microsoft. In the sense that Lotus bought out VisiCalc, which almost singlehandedly created the industry.Errr, no. Lotus did not write Visicalc, Lotus wrote Lotus 123.
Gee, Rich, try reading what you are commenting on. I NEVER said Lotus wrote VisiCalc (though the founder of Lotus did have a lot to do with Advanced VisiCalc for the ///), in fact, what I said was that Lotus BOUGHT VisiCalc.
Roy
Visicalc was the first spreadsheet, for any computer, and it was the Apple ]['s killer app. I've still got Visicalc somewhere. Here's a source for more info... http://www.bricklin.com/visicalc.htm BTW, interestingly enough, spreadsheets were the reason for memory expansion. the extended memory system for the PC platform was developed because spreadsheet users needed more memory than the 8088's 1MB address range could provide. RichBill @ GarberStreet Enterprises http://garberstreet.netfirms.com
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