Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!blake!ogccse!littlei!omepd!davidl From: davidl@intelob.intel.com (David Levine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: low-budget spreadsheet - summary of responses Message-ID: Date: 15 Mar 89 14:04:05 GMT References: <37120@think.UUCP> <11010050@hpfcdc.HP.COM> Sender: news@omepd.UUCP Organization: BiiN Information Systems, Hillsboro, Oregon Lines: 30 In-reply-to: bayes@hpfcdc.HP.COM's message of 8 Mar 89 18:10:44 GMT Quote without comment: "According to Chris Espinoza, advanced technology marketing manager, five-year old Macintosh applications software not only still operates on the newest Mac system, but also takes advantage of its enhanced memory, 68030 processor and large-screen displays. The Macintosh software automatically adjusts applications to the new enchanced Mac II environment. "As a demonstration, Espinoza took his own copy of Microsoft MultiPlan (purchased in spring 1984) and slid it into the new IIcx. The spreadsheet opened to the full megapixel limit of the attached Mac page display and allowed full spreadsheet access to the Mac IIcx's 4 Mbytes of system RAM. "`That's our design philosophy here at Apple,' said Espinoza. And while he won't guarantee that every Mac software vendor wrote code as cleanly as Microsoft [sic], he points out that this kind of compatibility is [not] available with the competing 386 PC systems." Excerpted from "Mac IIcx: Smaller size, smaller price", EE Times, March 13, 1989, page 14. Presumably the IIcx was running System 6.0.3. David D. Levine BBBBBBBBB IIII IIII NNN NNNN TM Senior Technical Writer BBBB BBBB iiii iiii NNNN NNNN BBBBBBBBB IIII IIII NNNNNNNNN UUCP: ...[!uunet]!tektronix!biin!davidl BBBB BBBB IIII IIII NNNN NNNN MX-Internet: BBBBBBBBB IIII IIII NNNN NNN ARPA: <@iwarp.intel.com:davidl@intelob.intel.com>