Hmmm...

[dunbarx at aol.com]

I always thought it odd that Supercard was developed by Bill Appleton, HC being developed by Bill Atkinson. They even looked alike, tall and lanky. Cousins?


Craig 



-----Original Message-----
From: Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com>
To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Fri, Oct 31, 2014 5:51 pm
Subject: Re: Hmmm...


On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Did anyone recreate HyperCard and then improve it once HyperCard was
> killed off?
>
> And the answer is 'Yes' several times over: many being short-lived things
> (SERF ???), and
> many restricted to only 1 or 2 platforms (ToolBook, SuperCard),
>

SuperCard was actually contemporaneous with HyperCard.

SuperCard 1.5 had multiple windows long before HyperCard 2.0.

And if they had come out with the PC version 2 years earlier, or even if I
had known it was coming, **I* *would be dominant player in bankruptcy
software today . . .


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