Hi, Cecil, I am a little confused by your message. You mentioned dbase. Does this mean that we are lucky enough to have a dbase version for linux? That would make my day. Pat On Thu, 30 May 2002, Cecil H. Whitley wrote: > > Hi, > Both SAS and SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) were born on > mainframes. The windows versions are simply ports. The historical > spreadsheet program of course is 1.2.3 and/or twin. As for database > programs it's d-base. Remember word star? If my memory serves me correct, > these were born under cp/m? > > Cecil > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >