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Lotus 1-2-3 was commonly described as the "killer app" for the IBM PC as early as 1987.
by alasdair_ 9y ago
Lotus 1-2-3 was commonly described as the "killer app" for the IBM PC as early as 1987.
- thanatropism 9y agoYes, but "application" didn't mean "program", it meant "application". Lotus 1-2-3 was an application of PCs, it made PCs useful.
- Govindae 9y agoI thought the etymology was from function application. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apply https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apply
- takeda 9y agoI doubt it. If anything, they probably just have common origins. Apply originates from functional languages which did exist at the time, but were not really used outside of research. Occam's Razor tells me that it most likely came out from "how you use the computer" and then it evolved to refer to the program itself.