Re: Neo/J release

Joost Andrae wrote:

> Hello James,
>
> here's some history:
>
> AFAIK StarDivision's first implementation of StarWriter was done on 
> CPM, later on DOS in the mid/late 80s. The first implementations of 
> StarWriter on DOS had it's own graphical representation based on the 
> text display of DOS and it had a font rasterizer. The first 
> implementation on a graphical environment was on Windows 16 bit. This 
> was before the development of StarOffice started. In late 
> 1994/beginning of 1995 StarOffice was developed, based on StarView C++ 
> class library for Windows 16 bit, Windows 32 bit, Windows (RISC), 
> OS/2, Linux (x86), MacOS (PPC), SCO Open Server 5, AIX, HP UX, IRIX, 
> Solaris Sparc, Solaris (x86), Solaris (PPC), OS/390, NetBSD and maybe 
> some more operating systems. Some of these ports were never released 
> as a product. Starting with StarOffice 4 PP3 the GUI class library 
> changed from StarView to VCL, a class library which is still part of 
> current development at Sun.
>
>
> Kind regards, Joost
>
>> Just to get my facts straight, what was the original target platform 
>> for StarOffice (not OpenOffice)?
>>
>
Thank you.  I did not know that Star Office had that history.  I was 
introduced to it when I was using OS/2 (in the pre-Warp days).  It still 
proves to be the best multi-platform office 'suite'. 

James McKenzie