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Office on HP-UX and Unix
Office suites for HP-UX and PA-RISC were developed in the mid-1990s to fill the gap between technical engineering and integration into the wider office environment.
Key feature for the early 1990s were integrated links to SQL databases through Wingz-DataLink and HyperScript, a graphical programming language for decision support systems. The graphical Wingz spreadsheet and its attached HyperScript analytical development environment was meant to be the killer application for Apple’s ill-fated A/UX Unix implementation way back in 1987. Wingz also ran under MacOS, but authors Informix Software were only marginally wiser choosing their next major port, to the doomed Next Inc box.
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