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Acrobat Reader is the free software from Adobe used to read, view, and print documents created by the commercial Adobe Acrobat product. Its primary strength is that documents appear and print identically across differing systems.


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Balance of power is a strategy game where one must lead a superpower nation to avoid war. It was ported to the Mac, Apple II, Windows, Atari ST, and Amiga.


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Editor Assembler is a native development system for the TI-99/4A. It features a text editor, a TMS9900 machine code assembler, and sample code including an assembler version of "Tombstone City".


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FrameMaker, originally from Frame Technology Corporation and later Adobe, is a professional document system for creating large, complex documents with highly structured layout. It was often accompanied by FrameReader.


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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a text based interactive fiction game where you play the part of Arthur Dent, who begins an exciting and confounding space journey right as the world ends.


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Inferno is a distributed operating system started at Bell Labs. Inferno is a descendant of Plan 9, and shares many design concepts and even source code in the kernel.


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Personal Newsletter is a simple desktop publishing tool for the Apple II.


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The Pick Operating System is a multi-user database oriented operating system for the IBM PC. It includes its own multi-user database, and native applications are written in Pick BASIC. It is similar to, and competed against Thoroughbred OS. Later versions of the Pick System database and programming language were hosted under Unix or Windows instead of using its own OS.


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PrintPower is a tool for creating greeting cards, signs, banners, and calendars, similar to The Print Shop. It was a rather clunky low-end bottom of the bargain-barrel budget title. The later "Pro" version seems to give it a more Mac-like user interface.


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BlueBird SuperDOS is a proprietary multi-tasking multi-user system built to run business applications simultaneously over dumb terminals, replacing expensive mainframe/minicomputers with a single commodity PC. Business Computers systems, and then IBM PC systems. It grew to support protected mode on 386/486 systems. Although it uses MS/PC-DOS to install, "Protected Mode SuperDOS is a freestanding operating system that is not dependent on either DOS or the ROM BIOS.". Most applications for it are written in BlueBird SuperDOS Business Basic. and moving-and-storage companies that needed workstations at many points for data entry, but did not want to put a powerful and expensive computer on every desk. Office, Manufacturing, Auto Rental, Van and Storage, Wholesale Distribution, and Word Processing. Most of these were ported from Data General compatible Business Basic software. multi user basic-oriented product was Thoroughbred/OS, and much later Citrix Multiuser attempted to fill a similar role.


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TI-Writer was the standard word processor for the TI-99/4A. To use TI-Writer, you must have the TI-Writer cartridge (needed to load the disk software) and a TI-99/4A with the 32k RAM and disk expansion options.


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WebObjects is an Objective-C web application server from Apple, and a server-based web application framework. It features object-orientation, database connectivity, and prototyping tools.


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During the late 1980's, WordPerfect was THE standard word processor for DOS based PCs in big business. Under DOS, it competed mostly against Wordstar. WordPerfect for Windows enjoyed some success in the early Windows environments, but was quickly displaced by Microsoft Word for Windows. Later Windows versions were part of Borland Office/Novell PerfectOffice/Corel Office/Corel WordPerfect Office.