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From: wjs@milton.u.washington.edu (William Jon Shipley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Death of OS/2? (was Re: Microsoft OS/2?)
Keywords: OS/2, Presentation Manager, Microsoft
Message-ID: <16176@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 10 Feb 91 23:28:34 GMT
References: <29814@usc> <70447@microsoft.UUCP> <1991Feb10.121445.9312@news.arc.nasa.gov>
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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Arthur Ogawa writes:
>I'm casting about in my mind for any recollection of a MicroSoft trademark
>on any of the software on my Unix system. I see AT&T, I see Sun, I even
>see HP. But MicroSoft? Would somebody clue me in? Can I buy MS Word for
>Unix? Excel? C compiler? What have I been missing?

Both MS Word and Multiplan are available for the AT&T 3b2 (a Unix box that
really redefines slow).  It was my understanding that these two products
were licensed to AT&T, Microsoft didn't actually have much to do with them.

For those curious, they both are incredibly ugly and slow, but, they do work,
sort of.  (Scrolling was totally un-optimised, so on a 9600 baud dedicated line
it would take seconds to scroll down by a screen.)

Yes, some pretty high technology Microsoft was licensing to AT&T.  Maybe next
they'll license the incredible memory manager they've written into Windows,
so that we Unix dolts don't have to do memory management in the operating
system.

-william "Just-because-I-love-Seattle-doesn't-mean-I-like-Microsoft" shipley