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- From: banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn)
- Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets
- Subject: Re: Borland is stupid
- Date: 15 Sep 1992 04:01:23 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
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- Message-ID: <193n6jINNm2v@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- References: <1992Sep11.234036.6611@resumix.portal.com> <1992Sep14.035012.25420@genghis.borland.com> <1992Sep14.161346.17205@resumix.portal.com>
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- Keywords: Quattro Pro Lotus
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- gary@resumix.portal.com (Gary M. Lin) writes:
- >I don't see any Borland suits at trade shows pushing anything except
- >goofy buttons that no one wants. Then again, what are you waiting for?
- We don't wear suits -- well only gorilla suits anyhow.
-
- >Microsoft to finish NT on MIPS and Alpha, so I can run Excel and blow
- >the socks off QPro? Okay, so who cares if Lotus ported 1-2-3 for IBM
- >mainframes, but at least they know they can do it on a non-PC system.
- NT - plegm-T -- porting to more than one processor family; what a concept!
- I say port to nextstep! (Thats how I'm hoping to get the developers kit
- anyhow).
-
- >Then again, I just MIGHT be still upset at Borland for selling me
- >SPRINT as the greatest word-processor since sliced bread. Grrrrrrr!!
- Yeah but what other word processor will allow you to write the prime sieve
- in its macro language?
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