From: Mike '/m' 


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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