Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Michelle Steiner <foo@bar.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.mobile.ipad
Subject: Re: 29 Years Ago: The Flop that keeps on Flopping
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 09:07:11 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 12
Message-ID: <211120130907115070%foo@bar.com>
References: <CEB26571.A4503%ghost_topper@hotmail.com> <211120130908287416%YourName@YourISP.com> <l6jo5g$2df$1@dont-email.me>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="8b819003531285591ae70ba618133493"; logging-data="23526"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+TwHJGcV640UbTUJLt+wIK7iXQrbexBhY="
User-Agent: Thoth/1.9.1 (Mac OS X)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:A/rYml4gkO/qKStHvuJ5vQ8Vcrs=
Mail-Copies-To: nobody
Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:52477 comp.mobile.ipad:29168

In article <l6jo5g$2df$1@dont-email.me>, Wes Groleau
<Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> wrote:

> I note though, that ONE-year after Macintosh was announced, "after TWO 
> years of delays, Microsoft was finally ready to debut the much-promised 
> Microsoft Windows."
> 
> In other words, though MS is often (justly) accused of copying Apple, 
> either they actually did something original, or there was a heck of a leak.

Microsoft had early access to the Macintosh so they could release
Multiplan and Chart when the Macintosh itself was released.