multiplan shipped before visicalc and WiNNT was nix not vms

Post #150,925 by boxley 4/12/04 6:55:04 PM Reply	multiplan shipped before visicalc and WiNNT was nix not vms I read the book of the winnt development effort. It was Nix on Intel much like the NeXT effort. Unfortunately after is shipped all the nix guys were let go and the code monkeys took it over. thanx, bill "You're just like me streak. You never left the free-fire zone.You think aspirins and meetings and cold showers are going to clean out your head. What you want is God's permission to paint the trees with the bad guys. That wont happen big mon." Clete questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #150,928 by inthane-chan 4/12/04 7:05:58 PM Reply	multiplan shipped before visicalc on Apple II?
Post #150,929 by Andrew Grygus 4/12/04 7:06:17 PM Reply	Bull byproducts! Windows NT was originally OS/2 (and retained OS/2 code compatibility for some time because it had to run a version of IBM's Lan Manager for the server). IBM told Microsoft if they called it OS/2 they'd sue, so Microsoft named it NT and brought in Cutler to finish it. Cutler had much of it rewritten to be more like VMS. Multiplan was not out before VisiCalc because VisiCalc was the first electronic spreadsheet ever - in the world ever - and ran on the early Apple II. Dan Briklin presented it as a college project and was told by his prof the concept was entirely absurd. He went ahead and wrote it anyway. SuperCalc, running on CP/M-80 was the first successful imitation of VisiCalc and all others came later. If you've been reading books that say otherwise, you're reading too many books published in Redmond. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #150,935 by a6l6e6x 4/12/04 7:58:26 PM 4/12/04 8:14:09 PM Reply	Bingo! Here is the [link\|http://www.bricklin.com/history/intro.htm\|link to VisiCalc history] from the horse's mouth. The original (1981) VisiCalc for DOS (all 27,520 bytes!) can be downloaded from [link\|http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm\|here] and run in the "DOS box". Alex Sacred cows make the best hamburger. --Mark Twain Edited by a6l6e6x April 12, 2004, 08:14:09 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #150,958 by boxley 4/13/04 8:17:08 AM Reply	you are right, multiplan was shipped in 1982 "You're just like me streak. You never left the free-fire zone.You think aspirins and meetings and cold showers are going to clean out your head. What you want is God's permission to paint the trees with the bad guys. That wont happen big mon." Clete questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #151,117 by orion 4/14/04 12:14:24 AM Reply	NT was MS-OS/2 3.0 I was told so in email by Dave Weaver quite some time go when I debated that some long time back. [link\|http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/OS2History.html\|http://www.os2bbs.co...s/OS2History.html] 1990 - The Schism In 1990, IBM and Microsoft were still working together on the development of OS/2. Microsoft, however, had found that Windows 3.0 - released in May 1990 - generated more revenue for them and therefore allotted increasingly more resource to Windows and correspondingly less to OS/2. By late 1990, Microsoft had intensified its disagreements with IBM to the point where IBM decided that it would have to take some overt action to ensure that OS/2 development continued at a reasonable pace. IBM, therefore, took over complete development responsibility for OS/2 1.x, even though it was in its dying days, and OS/2 2.00. Microsoft would continue development on Windows and OS/2 3.00. Shortly after this split, Microsoft renamed OS/2 V3 to Windows NT. [link\|http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/ArticleID/4494/4494.html\|http://www.winnetmag...ID/4494/4494.html] Microsoft's internal project name for the new OS was OS/2 NT, because Microsoft's intention was for the new OS to succeed OS/2 yet retain the OS/2 API as its primary interface. The success of Windows 3.0 in April 1990 altered Microsoft's thinking and its relationship with IBM. Six weeks after Microsoft released Windows 3.0, Microsoft renamed OS/2 NT as Windows NT, and designated the Win32 API (a 32-bit evolution of Windows 3.0's 16-bit API) NT's official API. Gates decided that compatibility with the 16-bit Windows API and the ability to run Windows 3.x applications unmodified were NT's paramount goals, in addition to support for portions of the DOS, OS/2, and POSIX APIs. From 1990 to NT's public release in August 1993, Cutler's team was in a mad dash to complete NT, and the project grew to involve more than 200 engineers and testers. Figure 1 shows a timeline of the major events in the history of NT. *"Lady I only speak two languages, English and Bad English!" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"*
Post #151,900 by Ashton 4/20/04 3:43:46 AM Reply	Yup SCalc on my Osborne1

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