🚀 go-pugleaf

Years ago, back in the Dark Ages, when I was but a pup, I  
bought my first computer.  IBM's were awfully expensive,  
brand new, and it wasn't clear at all they were worth the  
powder it would take to blow them to hell.

The standard of the time was CP/M based machines.  Not  
terribly standard.  Heck, there were some hundred different  
floppy disk formats, but some 80% of the stuff would run  
everywhere, if you could load it.

I ended up with a Kaypro 10.  It came with WordStar,  
CalcStar, ...  dBase II, SuperCalc...  The value of the  
CP/M packages was at list almost twice what I paid for the  
computer.  

Mr. Kay made a LOT of money with that line of machines at a  
time when he came into the market late, and no-one had much  
market share.  

If Mr. Jobs wants this machine to sell, it should have  
middle of the road capability in all the areas it claims to  
excell in, right out of the box.  Thus it should have a  
reasonable word processor, spreadsheet, bit image twidler,  
drawing program,...

The spreadsheet doesn't have to be Improv.  The Word  
processor doesn't have to be FrameMaker.  The drawing  
package doesn't have to be Create.  But I should be able  
use spreadsheet to make a simple table with totals; hack up  
some quick illustrations with a simple drawing program; and  
put the whole thing in a word processor, and get a decent  
looking report with captioned tables.

By the way, Mr. Kay went bankrupt when he tried competing  
for commodity market PC's.  I hope that part of the analogy  
doens't hold up.