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- From: quilty@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Humberto Humbertoldi)
- Subject: Re: GeoWorks
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- Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- References: <1992Nov20.011346.4111@wkuvx1.bitnet> <By0yBs.59o@nic.umass.edu> <1992Nov20.190316.6067@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 03:13:35 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.190316.6067@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel) writes:
- >In article <By0yBs.59o@nic.umass.edu> quilty@titan.ucc.umass.edu
- >(Humberto Humbertoldi) writes:
- >>The bigger problem is one that one should
- >>basically blame on The Prince of Darkness over at Microsludge: namely,
- >>while there are a million third-party Windoze programs (some not
- >>available in other versions), there are ZERO third-party GeoWorks
- >>apps.
- >
- > Well, there is ONE: Borland's Quattro spreadsheet which you can
- >either buy by itself or bundled with GeoWorks (the "Pro" package). Note
- >that I know nothing about this except what I've read in the magazines,
- >so don't ask me :-).
-
- Well, I've only read the magazines myself, so I could be wrong.
- However, what I remember reading in the review of GeoWorks v.1.2 is
- that a somewhat stripped down version of Quattro pro came in the box
- -- but that this program was still a regular DOS program; all GeoWorks
- does is put Quattro as an icon to launch, but once launched, GeoWorks
- gets out of the way like it does with any DOS app. I.e. no
- multitasking, no clipboard capability, etc.
-
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