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Subject: Re: low-budget spreadsheet - summary of responses
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Date: 17 Mar 89 00:20:14 GMT
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In article <37578@think.UUCP> ephraim@think.com (Ephraim Vishniac) writes:
>In article <DAVIDL.89Mar15090405@intelob.intel.com> davidl@intelob.intel.com (David Levine) writes:

(Espinosa story omitted)
>
>Well, here are *my* comments.  I don't believe this for several
>reasons.
>
>	1. The version of Multiplan distributed in 1984 was copy-
>	   protected.  I'd be amazed if the copy-protection scheme
>	   still worked.
>
(other points omitted)
>
>But I'm open-minded.  When I get home tonight, I'll go through my
>files and find my oldest Multiplan key disk (circa January 1985).
>Maybe it works better than the "current" version.  Or maybe the demo
>was rigged...
>
>Ephraim Vishniac  /  Internet: ephraim@think.com  / AppleLink: ThinkingCorp
>Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142-1214

Well, one explanation for the success Mr. Espinosa had with his demo
could be that the version of Multiplan he was using wasn't pure
vanilla, in that the copy protection could have been patched with
HD Util (from FWB Software) or the numerous other utilities which
proliferated in the days when it was not uncommon to copy protect
productivity software.  Apple warned developers from early on
that most copy protection schemes would almost certainly ensure
that the software would break under future System/CPU releases,
and sure enough, such came to pass in the intervening years.
Perhaps somebody from Apple who's familiar with this demo
could tell the truth of the tale.

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