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It's interesting to see this in the context of their later success, but one bit of trivia stood out: > Microsoft is now unleashing a barrage of programs, inclu
by mschaef 9y ago
It's interesting to see this in the context of their later success, but one bit of trivia stood out:
> Microsoft is now unleashing a barrage of programs, including ... Access, a communications package for the I.B.M. computer.
This is the 'other' MS Access - the one that predates the database.
- bitwize 9y agoI've used it. It appears to have been designed more as a front end to the "online services" of the day, with presets for the big ones like CompuServe, rather than a generic RS232 terminal emulator program. The fact that it fared poorly on the VAX at work, or warez BBSes, may have doomed it.
- Nition 9y agoHas Microsoft been naming things confusingly forever, then? One recalls the Microsoft Surface from 2008 - A big touchsceen table.