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Re:Bill Gates: “I never said '640K should be enough for anyb... by tabtab on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @12:04PM (#18131614)
It could have been Excel plus Word and maybe some other utilities that I don't remember. It was "Office-like".
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Re:Bill Gates: “I never said '640K should be enough for anyb... by Narishma on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @12:13PM (#18131727)
There was no version of Excel for DOS either. It started on the Mac, then went straight to Windows. IIRC the first couple of versions even came bundled with the Windows runtime.
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Re:Bill Gates: “I never said '640K should be enough for anyb... by tabtab on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @04:44PM (#18134670)
Well, maybe Word for DOS took up 7-ish floppies.
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