Re: Did Claris buy TimeOut QuickSpell from Beagle Bros?

[magnusfalkirk <dean.phares@gmail.com>]

On Dec 22, 12:57 am, slickrcbdn...@gmail.com wrote:
> I was just having a conversation about how Word Processors have
> changed since the 1980s and spell check being a major part of it. I
> was talking about AppleWorks. I remember that when I upgraded from AW
> 2.1 to version 3.0, the new version had a built-in spell checker that
> looked almost identical to TimeOut Quickspell. It seemed a little more
> efficient than QuickSpell, but otherwise looked identical.
>
> Did Claris buy the source code from Beagle Bros? I don't recall ever
> seeing any articles about it, but in that time frame my only real
> sources for news in the computing world was InCider/A+ magazine and
> the BRCC newsletter.
>
> Just curious, I probably should have posted this question in the mid
> '90s when I was more active on this group, but for some reason I never
> thought of it while at a computer that I could use to access Usenet.
>
> oh, to e-mail me, drop the news from my address.

If you look at the startup screen for Appleworks v3.0 it states
"enhanced by Alan Bird, Randy Brandt and Rob Renstrom". Also at the
bottom it says "Portions copyright Claris Corp., Alan Bird and Beagle
Bros, Inc.". If I remember right Claris went to Beagle Bros and asked
for help with version 3 of Appleworks and one of the major things they
did was to make Timeout Quickspell a standard part of Appleworks.

Just my two cents worth,
Dean