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  3. January 2001

Re: New names

  • Subject: Re: New names
  • From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 14:53:16 -0600
 
From: <D.BALE@handleman.com>

> Buck, I always respect your opinions.
> 
> >1) Most good applications are not ported to multiple platforms, or if
> >they are, the "native" platform is always seen as the premier system.

Excel was first written for Mac, then ported to Windoze,
1-2-3 was first written for CP/M, then ported to IBM/PC


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