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

On 11/03/2013 02:06 PM, Upscope wrote:
> On Saturday, November 02, 2013 12:46:43 PM Urmas wrote:
> > "Les Howell":
> >
> > Just a simple question, Do you know who originally designed Microsoft
> > Office?
> >
> > Microsoft mostly.

/snip/

> Thats not totally correct if I remember right. Office started out as a 
> joint project between IBM and Microsoft for the original PC. There was a 
> differnet of directions and MS wnd IBM went there own ways. MS took a 
> lot of the joint developemt (Stole) with them. we used to use Wordstar 
> on or PC's.
>
> Russ

It wasn't originally MS Office, it was just MS Word. It ran on DOS,
just like WordStar, but it had some basic word-processing functions
listed at the bottom, and it worked with a mouse, if I recall, which
WordStar did not. WordStar required a bunch of ctrl-x functions, where
x was some keyboard letter. This was, I believe, derived from
Teletype terminal days, where some k/b functions we expect, even some
found on a typewriter, didn't exist. Functions on a modern k/b, like
the up/down/left/right arrows were implemented by ctrl-x. Even
backspace, which doesn't exist on a teletype machine--ctrl-h will
do it. Even on a few programs today, but not T/Bird--I just tried!
I think Word was the first word processor to use a mouse, but I could
be wrong. After memorizing all the control functions in WordStar,
I stayed with it for quite a while, until WordPerfect came out.
I still won't use Word--WP is better, imho. I wish it were still
available for Linux.

--doug

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