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   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:49:27 -0800, Alan wrote:   
      
   > The whole reason that IBM rushed out the original PC in a form that was   
   > cloneable with an OS that they'd only licensed was that businesses were   
   > buying Apple II computers for the first "killer app":   
   >   
   > VisiCalc.   
   >   
   > The very first spreadsheet program.   
      
   Maybe that was IBM's motivation. SuperCalc was available for CP/M shortly   
   after VisiCalc.  SuperCalc was going long after VisiCalc was bought by   
   Lotus and killed.   
      
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