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thewayneWell, arguably didn't deserve to die. I remember (and worked with) a lot of these technologies, it's really a shame how many were bought out just to kill them to prevent a competitor from getting them.
I particularly miss Borland. Their Turbo series of compilers for $50 a pop was an unbeatable deal and literally an industry standard. They also had a killer spreadsheet called Quattro and a very slick word processor that was the first, AFAIK, to offer real-time spell check.
http://www.cio.com/article/print/125263
I particularly miss Borland. Their Turbo series of compilers for $50 a pop was an unbeatable deal and literally an industry standard. They also had a killer spreadsheet called Quattro and a very slick word processor that was the first, AFAIK, to offer real-time spell check.
http://www.cio.com/article/print/125263
