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

[Rich <someone@somwehere.com>]

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.
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