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From: rmh@apple.com (Rick Holzgrafe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: New MS Flight Sim! (almost here...)
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Date: 15 May 91 21:33:37 GMT
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In article <52839@apple.Apple.COM> robg@Apple.COM (Rob Griffiths) writes:
> Well, this is NOT official Apple, nor official Microsoft, but I got
> this from a fellow Apple employee attending the developer's conference.
> [...]
> A new version of MicroSoft flight simulator is definitely coming for the 
Mac.
> Bill Gates demoed as part of a keynote address at Apple's World Wide 
Developers
> conference! He demoed flight simulator cooperating with Excel 
spreadsheet. A
> flight plan was stored in an Excel spreadsheet and then communicated 
through
> the edition manager to flight simulator. Pretty Hot!

I was there, I saw the demo. It looked good - and it was in color, too. A 
small nit - the communication was not through the Edition Manager, but 
through Apple Events. (I know, you don't care. :-)

> Sorry, no word yet on availability or pricing.

Me either - but I'm looking forward to finding out.

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