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From: chuq@plaid.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Ashton-Tate
Message-ID: <41659@sun.uucp>
Date: 11 Feb 88 17:44:24 GMT
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Reply-To: chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Posted: Thu Feb 11 12:44:24 1988

>Should we assume that Ann Arbor was developing FullCalc to be
>an Ashton-Tate product in the first place? (FullCalc was supposed
>to be shown by Ann Arbor at their booth at MacWorld, so sayeth the
>show guide. An Ann Arbor employee, when asked about it said, 
>"FullWhat??? I never heard of such a thing.")

The spreadsheet that AT announced isn't FullCalc, but a spreadsheet by the
folks who wrote the original MacWrite. If FullCalc ever existed, I'd now
guess that it's dead and gone.


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