S20/20 - anyone heard of it?

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2009/12/24 Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk>:
> Johnny,
>
> Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>> At school at the end of the 1980's we had a Unix multiuser system with
>> a lot of terminals in a few rooms. The software installed was Emacs
>> (for text editing, MUD, IRC etc), WordMarc Composer + (word
>> processor), Talk (chat program) and you name it. There was also a
>> spreadsheet program called S20/20.
>
> This rang a bell with me as something on Digital (DEC) computers. A
> quick google shows it was originally for VAX/VMS (which was not Unix!)

So they must have been ported it to Unix then. We had Berkeley Unix
and Unix System V installed on our machine. Before switching to Unix
we had a Prime 750 with Primos and Primix as oprating systems, but I
don't think we had S20/20 back then, BUT we had WordMarc Composer and
Emacs.

After having a look at your link (and the links given by others who
replied) I realize now that the name of the program was not S20/20 but
rather 20/20. I remember that I learned it by a built in tutorial, and
to start it I entered ”t2020”. To start the actual program the command
was ”s2020”, so I guess ”t” means ”tutorial” and ”s” means ”start” or
something like that.

Thanks, all you guys, for the links. Strange that I couldn't find
anything, or maybe I was just too lazy or something…

Johnny Rosenberg


> and was from Access Technologies. Take a look here:
>
> http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0SMG/is_n8_v10/ai_8576726/
>
> The article suggests it was made available for DECwindows and so could
> have been on either VMS, Ultrix or even Digital Unix.
>
> Regards,
> Tony.
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