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Well actually… AppleWorks came out in 1984 for the Apple //e. Microsoft Office came out for the Mac in 1989.

• ryukoposting 2y ago
  "For the PC" is an important qualifier in my message above. I'm familiar with AppleWorks.
  • scarface_74 2y ago
    Fair enough. I was thinking about “PC” in the literal since not the common vernacular - x86 + Microsoft OS
    • ryukoposting 2y ago
      There's an interesting debate there. Here's my thesis on it: Isolating the definiton of "PC" to the IBM lineage makes it a lot easier to contextualize the historical development of home computing. Example: my TRS-80 is a microcomputer, but it is not a PC. This is a sentence that younger generations can grok. If I say "my TRS-80 is a PC but not an IBM PC-compatible" their eyes glaze over.
      • hulitu 2y ago
        > Isolating the definiton of "PC" to the IBM lineage makes it a lot easier to contextualize the historical development of home computing The definition of PC is IBM PC. That's why Visual Workstation is not a PC, Apollo DN3500 was not a PC, etc.
        • scarface_74 2y ago
          The “definition” of PC is “A personal computer (PC) is a microcomputer designed for use by one person at a time.” In common parlance it has come to mean “a computer running a Microsoft operating system”. Most people these days would consider an Arm based computer running Windows a “PC”.