A bit of history
At the back of the attic, unused and covered in dust, Moonface found some boxed software that must have been there for nearly twenty years. I even remember using them for work, aeons ago.
Supplied in huge boxes with thick manuals and floppy disks, we had Wordstar, Harvard Graphics III, and Ashton-Tate Framework. All were for DOS- based PC's, all need a massive 640kB memory to run. Yes, 640kB, not MB. I hated Wordstar, with peculiar key combinations for spacing and functions; Harvard Graphics was functional but primitive; but Framework was a minor piece of genius. It was effectively a Windows-type integrated office solution before Windows existed, as it could display multiple documents on a DOS screen, each bound by a frame (or window) and allowing cutting and pasting between them.
It was a very neat solution for its time, and is available now at the dump to which Moonface took the boxes yesterday. Twenty years!
:-)
Supplied in huge boxes with thick manuals and floppy disks, we had Wordstar, Harvard Graphics III, and Ashton-Tate Framework. All were for DOS- based PC's, all need a massive 640kB memory to run. Yes, 640kB, not MB. I hated Wordstar, with peculiar key combinations for spacing and functions; Harvard Graphics was functional but primitive; but Framework was a minor piece of genius. It was effectively a Windows-type integrated office solution before Windows existed, as it could display multiple documents on a DOS screen, each bound by a frame (or window) and allowing cutting and pasting between them.
It was a very neat solution for its time, and is available now at the dump to which Moonface took the boxes yesterday. Twenty years!
:-)
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