9 Oct
2010
9 Oct
'10
4:12 a.m.
On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:25:36 -0600 Warren Young wrote:
But a fair comparison would be the Adobe Creative Suite, since Adobe presumably wants their software used everywhere.
Er - not when pressured by Micro$oft. Consider Framemaker, which was actively working on an OS2 (the IBM operating system for PC's) version. Taken over by Adobe, and the OS2 port was vaporized.
This was back in the days when OS2 was still a contender (perhaps fading) in the desktop market.
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It is interesting to note that before the advent of Microsoft
Windows, `GPF' was better known for its usage in plumbing:
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