Killer Apps???
Garrett G. Hodgson
garry at sage.att.com
Wed Feb 23 14:13:47 EST 2000
Skip Montanaro wrote:
> In common American high-tech buzzword English, a "killer app" is an
> application that makes the system that supports it something you have to
> have. For the IBM-PC (or was it the Apple ][?) the killer app was the
> VisiCalc spreadsheet. For the World-Wide Web, Mosaic was probably the
> killer app.
a long time ago, the game "star raiders" was the killer app
for atari computers. that game alone sold an amazing
amount of hardware.
great little machine. i still miss mine.
--
Garry Hodgson Every night
garry at sage.att.com a child is born
Software Innovation Services is a Holy Night.
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