This is due to a lot of factors, including bad management W. The fact is that neither Lotus nor WordPerfect ever successfully managed the transition from DOS text-mode to Windows GUI. In fact, as Raymond Chen has repeatedly noted in his blog, a lot of effort went into making compatibility hacks so badly written software would still work on Windows. Did this typically involve trying to deliberately break user-space software? No. The fact that the quote has so many variations, and that no one can seem to pin down who said it and when, makes me suspicious that the whole thing is an urban legend.ĭid Microsoft engage in anti-competitive behavior? Absolutely. I've heard a similar slogan with 'Windows' instead of 'DOS', as well as variations with 'WordPerfect' instead of 'Lotus'. Not a bad service contract gig for a 17-year-old. Then I'd ask, 'Would you like me to perform general maintenance and re-seat them all?' and She'd say 'No - we're in a hurry!' So I'd show up and take down the system and remove the S-100 memory card full of 4k RAM chips in sockets, say to myself 'okay, bit 2' and count over from the edge of the card and pry up, re-seat the appropriate chip. I'd get a call from the secretary saying 'Get over here quick! It's changing the spelling on the screen right in front of me again!' I'd ask, 'Give me an example?' And she'd say something like 'all the 'p' are changing to 't'.'

I used to maintain an S-100 system at a local attorney's office and they had awful problems with dust from their brick wall being sucked into the machines. I give fond greets to Vector Graphic S-100 Systems and their wonderful word processor MEMORITE, whose line jumping word wrap as you type was so smooth and flicker-free professional typists took to it easily. Of course this wasn't the only fine memory-mapped experience. For many of us Lotus was the first application to deliver the experience of scrolling through data vertically and horizontally so smoothly you got an actual sense of movement, without that whole-screen redraw-flicker that we had come to tolerate from software. Compared to everything else the data SNAPPED onto the screen. sigh) to create a working environment that was comfortable to be immersed in. That made skillful use use of reverse characters and color (oh how we loved those beautiful 80x24 8 color character displays.

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