Why I never saw my own posts!

[Liam Proven]

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Teo Zenios <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote:
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>> from wikipeadia
>>
>> History
>>
>> VB 1.0 was introduced in 1991. The drag and drop design for creating the
>> user interface is derived from a prototype form generator developed by
>> Alan
>> Cooper <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Cooper> and his company called *
>> Tripod*. Microsoft contracted with Cooper and his associates to develop
>> Tripod into a programmable form system for Windows 3.0, under the code
>> name
>> *Ruby* (no relation to the Ruby programming
>> language<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_(programming_language)>
>> ).
>>
>
> So it wasn't a ready made app like Visio that MS purchased, just a form
> generator that MS turned into VB using a 3rd party. And like many MS
> products it took then a few revisions for it to be good enough to use.

Indeed. I do apologise; I appear to have remembered incorrectly.

Perhaps I was confusing it with Frontpage, acquired from Vermeer, or
Visio, acquired from the eponymous company.

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