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In article <g2ho99hp41u5ubdtgukl4pibl6kja6n768@4ax.com>, Eric Stevens <eric.stevens@sum.co.nz>wrote:

Eric Stevens
Almost nothing useful was available in package form, not even for the IBM PC. We had to write much of our own stuff.

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you could have written your own stuff on a mac too.

Eric Stevens
How do you know? You weren't there.

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don't need to be.

if you could write it for the pc you could write it for the mac or whatever other hardware you wanted to use.

Eric Stevens
Pre-Mac - remember?

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so write it for the apple ii.

how do you think visicalc came to be, if it was not possible to write a program for the apple ii?

Eric Stevens
Do you really think the ordinary user would write the equivalent of a spread sheet for themselves on an Apple II?

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you said you wrote custom software for the ibm pc.

the point is that you could have written that software for any platform.