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Weird to state all these details, leading with 'presumably'
by jorisw 5mo ago
Weird to state all these details, leading with 'presumably'
- WillAdams 5mo agoI don't have the book, and I don't have much faith in writers, esp. when writing about NeXT, e.g., David Pogue writing in his column in _MacWorld_ and noting that Steve Jobs used a ThinkPad (correct) running Windows 95 (incorrect) since he couldn't be bothered to check that the ThinkPad model in question (I believe a 760C) was of course on the NeXTstep Intel compatibility list, and so, was of course running NeXTstep --- Lighthouse Design's Presentation.app was used as the model for Apple's Keynote.app
- jorisw 5mo agoWill concede that David Pogue is a bit of a hack compared to the other biographers. I didn't think his recent book added much except for some stories from the Tim Cook era.
- rbanffy 5mo agoWasn't PowerPoint also based on an application initially made for NeXT?
- WillAdams 5mo agoI don't think so --- it was originally a Mac application done by a company named Forethought, Inc. in 1987 (per Wikipedia), while the NeXT didn't come out until late in 1998
- rbanffy 5mo agoI must have confused them though. Funny to think such an important part of Office originated outside Microsoft.