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From: kfr@dip.eecs.umich.edu (K. Fritz Ruehr)
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Subject: Seeking SideKick-/spreadsheet-type functionality for AT&T 3B2
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Date: 28 Oct 90 20:29:43 GMT
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  I have a friend with an AT&T 3B2 system running turn-key software for 
advertising agencies under System V.  He has a $1500 IBM PC/XT at home that
does, in some sense, far more than his $75,000 3B2 system does at work, from
his point of view at least.  Specifically, he has no way of doing simple 
calculations or spreadsheet-style work on the 3B2--as far as he has been able
to determine, no such software exists for his platform.  For that matter, no 
"productivity" software of any kind seems to exist, so he must be satisfied 
either with bare shell UNIX or with hand-holding menu systems that don't even
allow him to send mail.

  Does anyone know of any software that will allow simple calculation
capabilities WITH A NATURAL USER-INTERFACE on an AT&T 3B2? (of course,
natural is in the eye of the beholder, but SideKick's calculator is the
thing he has in mind).  A spreadsheet would be even better ...

  --  Fritz Ruehr
      kfr@dip.eecs.umich.edu