MultiMate? Jeez, I have trouble remembering what I ate for breakfast
<grin>and you expect me to remember something from a couple of months
ago..... errrr.... well, maybe that was more than just a few months <wink>
I remember the Multi - series MuliMate, MultiPlan, etc but I thought they
were fairly well limited to the IBM world. I also thought that was around
the time of Symphony and Framework -- the early attempts at a "suite" of
tools ---- and they were all DOS based and ran in less than 1 Meg of RAM.
Now think about that for a minute and look at the bloated stuff we have
today. Oh , it wasn't graphical, and it didn't have cute little animated
paper-clip things that pop up at the wrong time and cover up what you are
trying to work on... but they DID work and worked well!
At that time of life, I was writting technical documentation. I was banging
out 200-300 page books using Framework and NEVER (and I mean NEVER) had a
PC lockup.....ever. It did everything todays software does (minus the
graphics and internet) Multiple views, linked files, collapsable frames
(windows), multileveled outlines, bulleted or numbered lists, and more.....
all on a DOS based XT with 640K of RAM(yes that's a K).
Jim Meagher
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----- Original Message -----
From: Diane Kroeckel <[log in to unmask]>
> Jim,
>
> Did you forget MultiMate? That was the first word processing program I
> used. Talk about basic. Then I went to Word Perfect. Tried WordStart
> and hated it. Then moved on to Word, which I'm currently using.
>
> Diane Kroeckel
>
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