I seem to remember, around 1981, seeing a demonstration of
an experimental PROFS at Yorktown Heights. IBM had just
opened the Special Planned Programs facility in Tampa to
get back into the timeshare market and we were considering
their PROFS as our offering. I even had a copy of PROFS
source code at one point to see if we could make it fit in
to our architecture. Don't recall if it was the product or
Ykt version.
Les
David Boyes wrote:
On 3/30/10 10:34 PM, "David Boyes" <dbo...@sinenomine.net> wrote:
Talk about someone that ought to know better.... Although I guess the out is
that it's a yearly award and the "commercial acceptance" clause is slick
enough to slide by. Then again, *how* many copies of PROFS were there? I
guess IBM can't give the prize to itself, though (for inventing the office
productivity suite).
Correction: *publicizing* the office productivity suite. Amoco (IIRC) gets
the invention prize for that little gem.
