Microsoft and Unix/Linux (Myths and IP)

[Charles philip Chan]

On 30 Dec 2006, james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org wrote:

> Many years ago, I attended a one afternoon class at Ryerson on
> spreadsheets.  One half of the class ran Visicalc on Apple II and my
> half, Supercalc on Zenith Z-89 computers.  The Z-89 ran CP/M.  

I was reading about the history of SuperCalc on Wikipedia:

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperCalc

This bit is funny in connection to this thread:

,----
| An improvement over VisiCalc, SuperCalc was notable for being one of the
| first spreadsheet programs capable of iteratively solving circular
| references (cells that depend on each other's results). It would be over
| 10 years after the introduction of SuperCalc before this feature was
| implemented in Microsoft Excel.
`----

> A friend of mine still has a working H89, the Heathkit version of the
> Z-89.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenith_Z89

Wow, haven't hear that name mentioned in a long time. I still have my
Osborne IIB in working condition. It is similiar to this:

        http://www.vintage-computer.com/osborne_1a.shtml

Charles

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