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- From: mbb@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (martin.brilliant)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
- Subject: Re: GeoWorks
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.204906.18345@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 20:49:06 GMT
- References: <1992Nov20.190316.6067@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
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- From article <1992Nov20.190316.6067@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>, by mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel):
- > 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 :-).
-
- From actual experience: first, the Quattro bundled with GeoWorks Pro
- is not a GeoWorks app, but a DOS app. Second, America Online is a
- third-party GeoWorks app - if you buy it separately, it comes with the
- GeoWorks runtime environment. Third (from hearsay), the reason there
- are so few third-party GeoWorks apps is that GeoWorks didn't release a
- development kit; it has nothing to do with Microsoft.
-
- So how was America Online created? I don't know.
-
- Marty
- marty@hoqaa.att.com hoqaa!marty
- Martin B. Brilliant (Winnertech Corporation)
-