news@amdcad.AMD.COM (Network News) (08/25/88)
dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David Williams) writes: >[...] Apple's engineers had to keep adding patches to the SYSTEM >software to ensure that Microsofts code would run! Remember the Multifinder about box which was "edited" at the insistence of Apple's legal department? "Special Effects . . . . . XXXXXXXXX" (Guess which software company they meant...) [Yes, I've seen the unedited list. No I won't tell. I can't afford lawyers.] -Jim Hayes Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale CA. hayes@amdcad.amd.com /earth: file system full {ucbvax|sun|decwrl}!amdcad!hayes These are not opinions of AMD. Work: (408) 749-5726 Home: (408) 733-9814
atchison@hpindda.HP.COM (Lee Atchison) (08/27/88)
>/ hpindda:comp.sys.mac / gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu / 7:59 am Aug 19, 1988 / >Wasn't Excel released for 128K machines? > No, Excel when it was first released required 512k (I know, it was because of wanting to run Excel that I originally upgraded by 128k machine). I happen to like Excel. I've only run into one bug with it and that is apparently fixed in a version that I don't own yet...... > >Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois >1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801 >ARPA: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu UUCP: {uunet,ihnp4,harvard}!uiucdcs!gillies >---------- ---- Lee Atchison Hewlett Packard, Business Networks Division Cupertino, CA 95014 atchison%hpindda@hplabs.hp.com