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> "developers ... should use a low-spec machine" That is exactly what Michael Brown, founder of Central Point Software, insisted on back in the 1980's when t
by lucas_membrane 3y ago
> "developers ... should use a low-spec machine"
That is exactly what Michael Brown, founder of Central Point Software, insisted on back in the 1980's when they were producing the #1 selling PC software according to PC magazine.
An informed market also helped. A little bit earlier there was a comparison review published (same publication, IIRC) of the top spreadsheet programs (spreadsheets being the reason office workers were getting PC's). MBA Analyst was the best, in everything except speed, much better functionality than Visicalc, MS Multiplan or Lotus123, and only slower by a difference few users would notice without a stopwatch. MBA Analyst vanished in a flash after that article came out, and it found such a stable oblivion that it doesn't even show up on google nowadays.