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Tom’s Hardware Guide: Mozilla Chairman Mitch Kapor Speaks Out

“I had a chance to catch up with Mitch Kapor last week. Kapor is
one of the founding lights of the modern PC software industry. He
was at the helm at the beginning of the Lotus Development Corp. in
the early 1980s and saw his applications run on the earliest
business PCs. He was responsible for many seminal software
projects, including 1-2-3, Agenda and Notes. I can remember using
the first version of 1-2-3 to build various mathematical models for
the companies that I worked for back then, and still have my
slipcase of the software and original 5.25 inch floppies (not that
I have a PC that has any floppy drives on it anymore, but it is
nice to have these early touchstones of technology).

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