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Maybe these people would be interested...

http://www.emsps.com/oldtools/

What is one man's junk is sometimes another man's treasure, but you are probably not interested in holding onto what may or may not be junk forever. These guys seem to be in the business of warehousing old stuff and may gladly pay the shipping before you dumpster it all.

You will be doing somebody a great service by slipping your discards to someone who has the resources to remarket these old treasures. Its not so much emsps, but the bloke who is dying for some documentation for some old dinosaur that wandered into his life.

I've found Windows to be the most keyboard friendly GUI OS. Which I think is kind of odd ...

There's a good reason for this: legacy. For years, Microsoft sold windows+mouse bundles like this one. There was a time - a decade or so, actually - when Microsoft could not count on all, or indeed most, of its customers to have a mouse.

Hello,

Perhaps you meant Borland Sidekick?

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Aryeh Goretsky

I would argue that competitors in the Office Suite area are less expensive because they lowered prices in response to Microsoft's dominance. When Microsoft wasn't dominant, they charged just as much as Microsoft. Don't forget that Microsoft was the first company to bundle a word processor and spreadsheet into an "office suite" that was cheaper than buying each app separately.

If I remember correctly, WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 were still big players when Microsoft Office made its debut in 1993. Remember, most users still used DOS apps in Windows or used DOS as their main OS at the time. The price for individual apps like WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, Word, and Excel was around $500. Microsoft, in a brilliant marketing strategy, bundled Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for only $800. MS Office was an instant hit. When WordPerect and Lotus responded with their own office suites (after buying or partnering with other software companies), they weren't much cheaper than MS Office. It was only after MS Office had the dominant market share that competing office suites and individual apps (like WordPerfect) lowered their prices significantly. Too little, too late.

Microsoft's Visual J++ went from 1.0 to 6.0 in one revision.

I remember using more versions that that I've still got Word 4 on an old Mac here.

Don't forget Borland SideKick , for DOS.

You think _that's_ spooky.. Try this...

(I found a copy when I was at IBM and gave it to my OS/2 nut brother awhile back..)

Er, I dunno. Sounds like Sidekick to me.

Since we ran on DOS I wrote a character-mode UI in QBX that worked quite well, previous to that it was all sequences of INPUT statements. Our users (employees) were ecstatic to be able to GO BACK and change something..

Still, glad I'll never have to do that again. more info on QBX

Sorry, I don't know what happened to that link. Here's the one I meant to post.

Either your memory is scrambled, or you're just B.S. -ing. There was no version 4.2. Look here for version info.

DOS 5.0 was a rebuild. The project was lead by Gordon Letwin, the original OS/2 architect. 4.0/4.1 was a major disaster, and 5.0 was the recovery attempt.

wow. you mean Windows NT never ran on PowerPC? are you sure?

i guess all those people with the IBM Carolina PowerPC systems bought them so they could run Linux...

or check out this page which details what architectures windows NT versions have supported. quick surprise, PowerPC is among them, both for NT 3.51 and NT 4.0.

who is full of what?

-rp