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Re: Piece sorting methods
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Wed, 16 Dec 1998 18:37:05 GMT
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Sproaticus <jsproat@geocities.com> writes:
Well, from experience I have come to trust their basic Office set (Word,
Excel, Access) and Win NT.  That's most likely because MS didn't write
the things, but just bought the companies that wrote them.

Huh? I thought MS wrote all the above.  Who did MS buy them from?

--
Alan Shutko <shutkoa@ugsolutions.com> - (314) 344-5214



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(...) Oops - NT was written by IBM, which MS obvisouly didn't buy. It was originally called something like "Windows OS/2" or something, then after the split, most of the really good parts went into OS/2. I don't remember exactly who wrote Word, (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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(...) Well, from experience I have come to trust their basic Office set (Word, Excel, Access) and Win NT. That's most likely because MS didn't write the things, but just bought the companies that wrote them. Though I have to agree, it *is* a (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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