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[Marghanita da Cruz]

Howard Lowndes wrote:
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> Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
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>> Howard Lowndes wrote:
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>>> "contribution" - do you mean as in viruses, spam, etc...?
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>> viruses/spam came much later
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> not very much later.  IIRC, the stoned virus was about 1984.
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> ....I was referring to the contribution to
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>> "end user" computing - usability/word processing/spreadsheets in 
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> think visicalc and wordstar - well before M$ came on the scene.

vaguely recall wordstar and visicalc....but was involved in heated 
debates about the benefits of WordPerfect and amipro.

However, as an integrated easy to use, and probably price wise, package 
MSWin/Office won the day. The other aspect was networking, integrating 
PCs/Macs/Vax pre-web was a challenge.  TCP/IP and the Internet were 
floating around too - remember the debate between Ethernet and TOKEN RING?

Not to mention x.400...

Oh the good old days! These young people today, don't know how good they 
have it.

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>> Personally, I preferred a line editor and lotus 123. Not to mention 
>> those who still believe CPM was a better operating system. We could 
>> have a debate about Unix and proprietary operating systems also.
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>> Unix has been around for a long time, I think the aspect of Linux we 
>> need to understand is open source and the Web/Internet is open 
>> standards/interoperability.
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> Yes, Richie and Thompson were working on Unix at around the same time 
> that Dick Pick was working on his OS - late '60s/early '70s
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