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From: andyp@gvgpvd.GVG.TEK.COM (Andy Peterman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Compatibility (was Multitasking and interactivity)
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Date: 27 Feb 90 05:32:09 GMT
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In article <5562@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> desdemona!vita@steinmetz.UUCP (Mark F Vita) writes:
>
>Indeed.  At the Macworld Expo in Boston last August, Randy Battat from
>Apple performed a neat little stunt that really drove this point home.
>He had a Mac IIcx running System 6.0.3, and stuck in a 400K floppy
>containing a vintage (circa 1984) copy of Microsoft Multiplan.  He did
>a Get Info to show that the creation date was sometime in early 1984.
>Then he double-clicked on it, and... IT RAN.  I was impressed.
> .....
>Perhaps most surprising of all was that the program was a Microsoft
>application :-).  (Though I suppose Multiplan was written back in the
>days when Microsoft was really doing Mac development, as opposed to
>now, when all their code is bastardized so it will run under Windows,
>OS/2, and other such bogosities...)

Something that never ceases to amaze me is that I still use an OLD
version of Microsoft File (created Jan. 4, 1985) for some old inventory
databases.  Not only does it work perfectly on my current system (a IIcx
with System 6.0.3 and all sorts of INITs and cdev's) but it uses the
full 13" screen size flawlessly!  Sounds like Microsoft followed the
rules, even those that didn't exist back then.

I think I still have my original copy of Multiplan around somewhere.  I
guess it must still be worth something. :-)

	Andy Peterman