On 10/24/2014 07:41 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > Those who know the history know that Apache OpenOffice is the > continuation of the OpenOffice.org project, which itself came from a > proprietary suite developed in Germany called StarOffice, which itself > started as StarWriter, an application written in 1985 by Marco Börries > . > > So next year, in 2015, will be our 30th anniversary.
Truly monumental! > > Any ideas what we might do? > > For example, does anyone still have a Zilog Z80 (or an emulator) that > can run the original StarWriter? > > It looks like some emulators here: > > http://www.z80.info/z80emu.htm#EMU_CPU_W32 > > It might be interesting to show the history of Writer, from release to > release, via a set of screen shots (or a movie) showing the evolution > of the UI. > > Regards, > > -Rob > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive." -- Andy Grove, Intel Co-founder --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
