[muglo] Re: PowerPoint

http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bob/clarisworks.php#prehistory

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 09:20:55 -0500, Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 09:02:07 -0500, Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:17:43 -0500, Tee Cashmore <teecashmore@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Once again you are speaking tommy rot. Originally Appleworks was an
> > > Apple // programme , circa 1983 ish, & so many new Mac users in the mid
> > > eighties complained that MacWrite was not as good that eventually Apple
> > > came out with Clarisworks, based on the Apple //GS version of APW. The
> > > integration was superior to any Microsaft stuff. I could go on with the
> > > history lesson, but it is long and convoluted, but CW/AW was Never
> > > based on MacWrite.
> >
> > You are indeed one of the politest individuals I've ever met :)
> >
> > Seriously though, neat! So that is why the first versions of
> > ClarisWorks were so absolutely sub-par that they may just have
> > contributed to Apple's mid-90s doldrums! Integration is a euphemism
> > for: "it's not good enough to stand alone so we'll just throw it into
> > a package".
> >
> > I have a strange suspicion we'll never agree on this. To me AppleWorks
> 
> Well, neither of us knew our as$ from a hole in the ground. AW 6/CW1-5
> have nothing to do with Apple Works on the Apple II line of computers
> ;-), and, MS Office certainly can't be based off it since Excel and
> Word (on the Mac) predate AW/CW by at least 5 years!
> 
> This still doesn't change the fact that separate apps have
> consistently provided a higher quality piece of software. 123,
> WordPerfect, Word, Excel, Quattro Pro... these are the apps that will
> go down in history. Apple Works, Microsoft Works, whatever are nothing
>  more than blips on the radar screen of computing history -- they
> functioned adequately but never did everything particularaly well.
>
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