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Hi,
Both SAS and SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) were born on
mainframes.  The windows versions are simply ports.  The historical
spreadsheet program of course is 1.2.3 and/or twin.  As for database
programs it's d-base.  Remember word star?  If my memory serves me correct,
these were born under cp/m?

Cecil