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	Visi On - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		VisiCorp Visi On was a short-lived but influential graphical user interface-based operating environment program for IBM PC compatible personal computers running early versions of MS-DOS.
		Although Visi On was never popular (as it had steep minimum system requirements for its day), it was a notable influence on the later development of Microsoft Windows.
		Visi On was written in a subset of C, so it was probably expected that a third-party might port the software to Unix, but that never occurred.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Visi_On (387 words)

	VisiCorp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		VisiCorp was sold to Pallidan Software after a legal feud between Software Arts (the author) and VisiCalc and VisiCorp.
		VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet, developed by Software Arts and published by VisiCorp.
		VisiCorp - VisiCorp information on Ed Esber's official website
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/VisiCorp (133 words)

	GUIdebook > Articles > “Backtalk” (on VisiCorp and Hughes Aircraft Corporation)
		With its change of name to VisiCorp and of residence to Silicon Valley, all the entertainment software that was part of its line early on was eschewed in favor of a complete line of business packages.
		The awareness of this essential connection is reflected at VisiCorp in the share-the-wealth attitude toward employees that’s concretely implemented in the company’s profit-sharing and stock-option policies.
		The majority of VisiCorp stock is held by its employees in spite of successive founds with outside venture capital investors – a little more than nine million dollars’ worth – that the company has enjoyed to date.
	www.guidebookgallery.org /articles/backtalk (1783 words)

	Encyclopedia: Visicalc
		Conceived by Dan Bricklin, refined by Bob Frankston, developed by their company Software Arts, and distributed by Personal Software in 1979 (later named VisiCorp) for the Apple II computer, it propelled the Apple from being a hobbyist's toy to being a much-desired, useful financial tool for business.
		VisiCorp was a pioneering software company of the IBM PC era.
		Because of the aforementioned lack of a patent, none of the developers of early successors of VisiCalc had to pay any royalties to VisiCorp.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Visicalc (1111 words)

	Visi-Gation?
		Apple Computer is still selling IIs, IBM has made a tremendous success out of its PC, and Software Arts and VisiCorp, whose joint product can be said, in a sense, to have legitimatized the microcomputer legal battles that they can't even their legal battles that they can't even agree what court to litigate in.
		VisiCorp claims that Visi-On Calc is all new code, and not at all a copy of VisiCalc.
		According to VisiCorp President Terry Opdendyk, the lawsuit(s) are not impeding the normal intercourse of business between the two firms, and PC Advanced Version, if not already shipping, should be out soon.
	atarimagazines.planetmirror.com /creative/v10n3/160_VisiGation.php (816 words)

	WINDOWS 1.0 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		VisiCorp was de producent van VisiCalc en concurrent van Microsoft op het vlak van gebruikerssoftware.
		Met VisiOn maakte VisiCorp haar introductie op de markt van de besturingssystemen.
		De grafische schil van VisiCorp was in 1983, in tegenstelling tot Microsoft Windows, wel een afgewerkt product.
	www.thumpershollow.com /encyclopedia/W/Windows_1.0 (468 words)

	Rixstep (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		VisiCorp, creators of VisiCalc, the first-ever 'useful' application for a micro-computer and the program credited with getting the personal computing market going, showed up at Comdex with a bomb: they had a GUI under development for the IBM PC.
		His own corporation, Bill Gates shouted out at the VisiCorp exhibit, had a GUI under development too - but they, said Gates, were far too ethical to come to Comdex and pretend they had a product ready for market when said product was not yet ready.
		That Bill and company would later hire on Dave Cutler and his Tribe to create a VMS for the PC changed nothing: NT was dependent on the ad hoc 'architecture' that went before and so could not hope in its wildest dream to be secure.
	rixstep.com /1/20050419,01.html (1477 words)

	The End (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		VisiCalc's publishers, VisiCorp (originally named Personal Software), sued Software Arts in September 1983, much to the surprise (and dismay...) of us at Software Arts.
		The lawsuit went to a preliminary injunction hearing in 1984, where the judge did not grant the injunction requested by VisiCorp.
		VisiCorp was eventually sold off to various players.
	www.bricklin.com /history/saiend.htm (118 words)

	Smart Computing Article - Frankston, Bob to Fylstra, Daniel H. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In September 1983, VisiCorp, once Personal Software, sued Software Arts for an injunction because the program was not being updated as agreed to; VisiCorp claimed that the developers were not keeping up with the newly founded IBM PC market.
		VisiCorp was forced to sell out and Software Arts was sold to Lotus Development in 1985.
		In 1983, VisiCorp sued Software Arts for an injunction because the program was not being updated as agreed to, keeping up with the new founded IBM PC market.
	www.smartcomputing.com /editorial/article.asp?article=articles/archive/r0605/29r05/29r05.asp&guid=7B0F1DE9C159477494BAB7ED7A751DEC (2047 words)

	VisiCorp Visi On
		VisiCorp Visi On was the first full featured desktop GUI for the IBM PC.
		In august 1984 VisiCorp sold Visi On to Control Data Corp, where it was apparently never heard from again.
		To properly run VisiCorp Visi On you must have a PC/XT with at least 512k of ram, MS-DOS 2.00 (or higher), A hard drive (or other large disk) formatted with the FAT12 file system, and the Visi On model S1 or model M1 mouse.
	toastytech.com /guis/vision.html (1570 words)

	SI - readreplies.aspx msgid=16706694 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		VisiCorp, who owned the number one application in the world, the VisiCalc spreadsheet, demonstrated a product called VisiOn that had a mouse-driven GUI for the IBM PC.
		VisiOn was sold in shrink-wrap through VisiCorp's retail channel, so end users didn't receive it preinstalled on their systems.
		VisiCorp lost money and was sold to Lotus by the end of 1984.
	www.siliconinvestor.com /readreplies.aspx?msgid=16706694 (3543 words)

	vision history
		VisiCorp shows the VisiOn graphical user interface at the Fall 1982 Comdex.
		October 1983 VisiCorp releases VisiOn, an "integrated environment" that's the first GUI for the PC.
		To work well it requires 512K of RAM and a hard disk--still a cutting-edge setup at this point.
	members.fortunecity.com /pcmuseum/vision.htm (848 words)

	Apple II History Chap 18
		VisiCorp's contract with Software Arts guaranteed Bricklin and Frankston a hefty 37.5 percent royalty on each copy of the program that VisiCorp sold.
		VisiCorp was responsible for marketing and distribution of the program, but it was Software Arts who owned the rights to it, and they had no motivation to change their contract to decrease the royalty percent to a number that was more typical for programmers.
		After he sold the rights for those programs to VisiCorp, he began design on a spreadsheet program that would run specifically on the IBM PC, with the additional features of limited word processing and the ability to create graphs.
	apple2history.org /history/ah18.html (7176 words)

	Lotus Software - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lotus' first product was presentation software for the Apple II known as Lotus Executive Briefing System.
		Even though IBM and VisiCorp collaborated on VisiCalc for the PC and VisiCalc shipped simultaneously with the PC, Lotus was a superior product.
		The name referred to the way the product could be used, or at least so they claimed, as a spreadsheet, graph generator and database manager.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lotus_Software (1392 words)

	Visi On - Indopedia, the Indological knowledgebase
		VisiCorp Visi On was a short-lived but influential graphical desktop environment program for PC-compatible computers running early versions of MS-DOS.
		Although VisiCorp encouraged third-party companies to created Visi On-compatible programs, none did.
		Worse in 1983 was Visi On's inability to run a large variety of applications and regular DOS programs.
	www.indopedia.org /Visi_On.html (481 words)

	ipedia.com: Visi On Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		VisiCorp Visi On was a short-lived but influential graphical desktop environment program for PC -compatible computers running early versions of MS-DOS.
		Visi On VisiCorp Visi On was a short-lived but influential graphical desktop environment program for PC-compatible computers running early versions of MS-DOS.
		Although VisiCorp encouraged third-party companies to created Visi On-compatible programs, none ever did.
	www.ipedia.com /visi_on.html (447 words)

	The Shift to Software (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Large capital expenditures were required to be a winner among the 35.000 products for a place among the 200 products on a computer store shelf.
		Existing firms such as VisiCorp, MicroPro and Ashton Tate became also ran, and four of today’s leading companies Microsoft, Novell, Lotus and were growing from minor to major players.
		He had developed software for VisiCorp in 1979 and had sold his royalty rights to them for $1.7 million.
	ieee.cincinnati.fuse.net /reiman/02_1999.html (489 words)

	Библиотека Luksian key \| Aaron Priven. ASCIICOD.TXT
		I simply stumbled on this very interesting table in the VisiFile manual (a very bad program marketed by the late lamented VisiCorp that came with my computer) that not only included the number and two- or three-letter mnemonic (a fancy "computerish" word for name) but what the codes were actually intended to do!
		Oh, if you think this is stealing their manual material, for one thing the ASCII codes are far from copyrighted.
		And VisiCorp is but a small part of data in the computer-industry's (read-only?) memory.
	lib.luksian.com /texte/humor/165 (474 words)

	Attached > Computer history > “People in the news: Dan Bricklin”
		And, he has just emerged from a lengthy, bitter court battle with VisiCorp, the corporation that was once his strongest ally in the industry.
		Bricklin still shows an edge of resentment when he talks of VisiCorp and the way he believes the company treated him and Frankston.
		He says VisiCorp presented a public image of them that seemed to be aimed at keeping the two men in the broom closet instead of in the limelight.
	www.aresluna.org /attached/computerhistory/articles/spreadsheets/danbricklin?printable=yes (1067 words)

	ERCB: Barbarians Led by Bill Gates
		And yet the landscape is littered with the bones of Microsoft's competitors: VisiCorp, Lotus, WordPerfect, Novell, GO Corporation...
		VisiCorp, for example, dropped off the radar screen years before anyone anywhere was convinced that Windows would ever be a viable platform for applications.
		One characteristic Barbarians Led by Bill Gates does offer that is relatively unique is some of the most execrable writing and editing ever to be inflicted upon an unsuspecting public by an otherwise reputable mainstream book publisher.
	www.ercb.com /brief/brief.0073.html (653 words)

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		VisiCorp filed a law suit claiming that Bricklin and Frankston did not help VisiCorp or improve it as they promised and they began to claim VisiCalc.
		In 1985, VisiCalc became very weak from its battle with VisiCorp and sold its company to an up and coming giant now know as Lotus Software.
		Frankston has recently left slate in 1992, but Bricklin has continued to try to find a better and much more efficient way of doing and using things even if there are no hardware that is available to run it on.
	pegasus.cc.ucf.edu /~de088633/project1.doc (823 words)

	Technical history of Rosetta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Visi On was the first graphical operating environment for IBM PCs and compatibles; Microsoft began development of Windows as a competitive response.
		I helped VisiCorp understand GUIs, designed and built the operating environment itself, and helped VisiCorp teams build the file manager, word processor, spreadsheet, and business graphics applications.
		Visi On was written almost entirely in C in a rigorously object-oriented style, with some assembly language in the low level as necessary.
	www.rosetta.com /TechHistory.html (2226 words)

	Daniel Bricklin
		To make matters worse, VisiCorp, the company handling the marketing for VisiCalc, was upset at the lack of improvement in the product.
		VisiCorp claimed the two companies had an agreement which Software Arts was not honoring, and VisiCalc's rights should become theirs and not Bricklin's.
		After a long battle, the case was won by Bricklin, but not before so many resources had been consumed that he was forced in 1985 to sell the rest of the company to Lotus Software.
	ei.cs.vt.edu /~history/BRICKLIN.Fleming.HTML (1596 words)

	DigiBarn Friends: Michael Betts
		VisiCorp was a great company and the people there were great.
		The VisiOn project was the first GUI for the IBM PC and it was not easy to do when most PCs in those days were PC1s with a 64K of RAM and did not have a hard disk.
		I was one of the founders of an Artificial Intelligence software development company called Quantum InKnowvations from '85 to '87.
	www.digibarn.com /friends/michaelbetts (525 words)

	Fractals of Change: Rent-A-Wreck, VisiCorp, and Me
		Rent-A-Wreck, VisiCorp, and Me The first programs I wrote for personal computers were add-ons for VisiCalc – itself the world’s first spreadsheet program for those of you too young to remember.
		VisiCalc, as I’ve blogged before, was invented by Dan Bricklin and implemented by Dan and Bob Frankston.
		VisiCalc was marketed and distributed by VisiCorp which was located in Silicon Valley.
	blog.tomevslin.com /2005/07/rentawreck_visi.html (2287 words)

	Feature
		Apple was relying on it for the ill-fated Lisa project, which evolved into the Macintosh.
		And another company called VisiCorp, which had soared to industry stardom on the success of its VisiCalc spreadsheet, shocked the computer world - and Bill Gates - when it demonstrated, at the fall 1982 Comdex show in Las Vegas, the VisiOn, a graphical user interface for powerful IBM-compatible PCs.
		Gates, after seeing the VisiOn demo in VisiCorp's booth, called a Microsoft technologist named Charles Simonyi, back in Bellevue, and told him to fly down to see the technology.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/5.11/es_apple.html?pg=5 (824 words)

	LP News July 1998 - Computer pioneer urges: Join the Libertarian Party
		One of the pioneers of the computer revolution has urged the high-tech world to avoid opening the "Pandora's Box" of government regulation in the Microsoft antitrust case -- and, instead, to "invest in a political startup" by joining the Libertarian Party.
		Dan Fylstra, founder of VisiCorp and co-founder of BYTE magazine, sent an "Open Letter about the Politicization of the PC Industry" to more than 1,200 media outlets and computer forums in mid-May.
		He was founding Associate Editor of BYTE Magazine in 1975, and founder of VisiCorp, the marketer of VisiCalc -- the first commercially successful computer spreadsheet -- in 1979.
	www.lp.org /lpn/9807-Fylstra.html (885 words)

	18 Sep History: This Date (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		He returned to Apple as an adviser in 1996 and became interim president of the company in 1997 after Gilbert Amelio was ousted.
		Newspapers report that Software Arts and VisiCorp had settled a lawsuit regarding the best-selling VisiCalc spreadsheet.
		VisiCorp took over the marketing and distribution of VisiCalc, developed and produced by Software Arts, Inc. VisiCorp had sued Software Arts for $60 million, alleging the company failed to upgrade and improve the product.
	www.jcanu.hpg.ig.com.br /history/h4sep/h4sep18.html (6797 words)

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