From: "Randy H" 

The TI implementation was right around 1982-83. SInce TI was selling it
directly it would make some senss for it not to be included in the MSFT
product catalog at the time--remember, the TI, Atari and Commodore were
treated more like toys than as 'real' computers of their day (Apple, IBM
PC, TRS-80s.)

The TI never ran CP/M. It was a port to either native TMS 9900 machine code
or to the 99/4A's interpreted GPL.

"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
news:talc4vca6mh4uistak6bbeh9ats77un66m{at}4ax.com...
>
> In the catalog, it's listed for Apple, CP/M-80 and MS-DOS. Did the TI run
> CP/M, or was that after 1983?
>
>  /m
>
> On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 18:03:39 -0600, "Randy H"

> wrote:
>
> >Multiplan even made it to the TI 99/4A.
> >
> >"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
> >news:fth84v8oms6rssuh8n9fsv93jj123la94e{at}4ax.com...
> >> On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 17:57:46 -0500, "Frank Haber"

> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> >Hey, Mr. Miller...
> >> >
> >> >Since you're spamming even this NT group with those bombs, could I
have
> >some
> >> >fun, too?  Let's collect all the never-happened and quietly-died MS
> >products
> >> >we can remember.  Off the top of my head:
> >> >
> >> >Ms Work: (not Works).  Suite-to-be.  Never happened, to
my knowledge.
> >> >
> >> >MS Access, the comm program.  Not bad; insanely complicated.  Name
> >> >resurrected for the database, since MS has only a limited number of
> >> >"blanket-generic, but warm-fuzzy and vaguely
powerful" nouns in its
name
> >> >bank.
> >>
> >>
> >> Don't forget Dial.  Talk about bad...
> >>
> >> >
> >> >Multiplan: Quite competitive for its era.  Was this
actually written
in
> >> >house?  Fully?  Preserve it in amber!
> >>
> >> From my copy of the Microsoft May 1983 Product Catalog:
> >>
> >> ===
> >> Microsoft Multiplan(tm) Electronic Worksheet
> >>
> >> The Microsoft Multiplan(tm) Electronic Worksheet replaces the
> >> time-consuming, midnight-oil method of using pencil, eraesr, ledger
paper,
> >> and calculator to develop worksheets, the Multiplan program will help
you
> >> get fast answers to all kinds of planning, modeling and forecasting
> >> questions....
> >>
> >> System Requirements:
> >>
> >> MS-DOS 64K memory (based on 48K available user memory...), one disk
drive.
> >> ...
> >> ====
> >>
> >>
> >> >
> >> >MS Network, with IBM.  Did they support the enterprise part-analog
> >broadband
> >> >variant?
> >> >
> >> >MS/SCO Xenix
> >> >
> >> >The original standalone BASIC, a sort-of-opsys.
> >> >
> >> >All the classic languages, for several platforms.  Fortran, COBOL,
> >Pascal,
> >> >BASIC, Assembler/linker, etc.
> >> >
> >> >Ditto for CP/M.
> >> >
> >> >All the MS Home line - never kept track of these
> >> >
> >> >All the old games -   ditto
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >Others?  Warning: set your grey matter to a 1999 date
before trying to
> >> >remember.
> >>
> >>
> >> Most of what you mention are in the 1983 catalog.
> >>
> >>  /m
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >
>

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