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BetterRed · 05-03-2015, 09:06 PM

@theducks You forgot Visicalc - AFAIK it was first spreadsheet - an Apple II killer app, but for Viscalc there might not be an Apple.

And Multimate Word processor - an IBM PC killer app that killed the Wang WP system, it wasn't much known outside of large corporations - Conn Life commissioned its development. I recall some C programmers using it as an editor - the alternative was EDLIN :lol:

Can't remember if it was William Safire or William F. Buckley who used Wordstar up until the day they died - might have been both. I miss them - not that I always agreed with them, but they could turn a phrase or two and raise a wry smile; most of today's equivalents can only beget groans of despair... so many words, so little said

BR

05-03-2015, 09:06 PM	#21
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,854 Karma: 30277270 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@theducks You forgot Visicalc - AFAIK it was first spreadsheet - an Apple II killer app, but for Viscalc there might not be an Apple. And Multimate Word processor - an IBM PC killer app that killed the Wang WP system, it wasn't much known outside of large corporations - Conn Life commissioned its development. I recall some C programmers using it as an editor - the alternative was EDLIN :lol: Can't remember if it was William Safire or William F. Buckley who used Wordstar up until the day they died - might have been both. I miss them - not that I always agreed with them, but they could turn a phrase or two and raise a wry smile; most of today's equivalents can only beget groans of despair... so many words, so little said BR Last edited by BetterRed; 05-03-2015 at 10:15 PM.