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Thanks for sharing. Was there able to be any code sharing between the Motif/OpenLook versions and the DOS/OS/2 versions? (Or just concepts?) The other thing I

Thanks for sharing. Was there able to be any code sharing between the Motif/OpenLook versions and the DOS/OS/2 versions? (Or just concepts?) The other thing I should've mentioned is that at the time, OS/2 did look like the surer bet than Windows. The success of Windows surprised everybody (including, I think, Microsoft.)

yuhong 9y ago
Indeed the OS/2 2.0 debacle is one of the worst debacles in MS's history.
- mschaef 9y ago
  Technical issues aside, Windows by itself made MS >$100B over the last 10 years. If that's 'one of the worst debacles'... (I did like MS OS/2 2.0 though...)
  - yuhong 9y ago
    One of the reasons is the unethical attacks they did later on.
bboreham 9y ago
The spreadsheet engine was a port of the DOS version, which by that time was written in C. The GUI ran as a separate process and communicated with the engine via a character protocol into a bastardised "terminal driver". This fabulous kludge was driven by the testing regime: if we changed one byte of the spreadsheet engine it would trigger person-years of manual testing.