[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [pt-br-usuarios] Estudantes da rede estadual de SP terão Office gratuito para até 5 PCs após parceria

baldwin linguas wrote:
> I can remember writing college papers with Clarisworks.
> And there was Wordperfect from Corel.
> Although, I'm uncertain whether these were before or after MSOffice.
> I saw them both before I ever heard of MSOffice, though.
>
> Let's see...Clarisworks was released 1984.
> StarOffice (Sun) was released in 1985.
> Lotus 1 2 3 was released in 1983, but apparently Lotus Notes wasn't until 1989.
> Wordperfect for DOS was released in 1989.
>
> And MSOffice was released in 1991.
>
> Of course, neither Staroffice (Sun), Lotus (IBM) nor Wordperfect
> (Corel), had a full suite, initially,
> as far as I am aware, but Clarisworks/Appleworks did, well before MSOffice.
> OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice, of course, are both children of the
> old StarOffice.

I used to use PC-Write on DOS many years ago.  IIRC, the same company
had a spreadsheet and database available.  Of course, if we don't limit
ourselves to PCs, the mainframe and minicomputer world had "office"
software long before there was such a thing as a PC.


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