Re: The IBM PC's slavish devotion to the Apple II

[Rich <someone@somwehere.com>]

In infinite wisdom Exegete answered:
> Rich wrote:
>
> > In infinite wisdom Exegete answered:
> >
> > > Bill Garber wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > > check your sources. MicroSoft has more to do with the
> > > > success 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.

My mistake, please accept my apologies.

Rich


> 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.
> >
> > Rich
> >
> >
> >
> > > > Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprises
> > > > http://garberstreet.netfirms.com
>
>
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