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as "amazingly slow" and the text editor as "clumsy and confusing". The review concluded that Context MBA "fails in two areas ... UCSD p-System simply does not produce good code", and a confusing, heavily
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stated in June 1983 that Context MBA "still runs too slowly for a person accustomed to the speed of a microcomputer". It found the
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computer, but was later ported to the Hewlett Packard 9000 / 200 series computers running Rocky Mountain BASIC and
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application for personal computers, providing five functions in one program:
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integrated software
spreadsheet
database
charting
word processing
communication software
Apple III
IBM PC
UCSD Pascal
Lotus 1-2-3
assembly language
PC Magazine
spreadsheet
application
database
modal user interface
"Whatever Happened to Context MBA?"
"Ten Years of Rows and Columns"
Byte Magazine
"Context MBA: Half A Step In The Right Direction"
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business software
stub
expanding it
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Categories
DOS software
Spreadsheet software

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