FRAMEWORK

Framework

Framework, launched in 1984, was the first office suite to run on the PC 8086 with DOS operating system. ValDocs, an even earlier integrated suite, actually comparable to the original Macintosh of 1984 and Apple Lisa of 1982 was produced by Epson, a complete integrated work station based on the previous Zilog Z80 processor and CP/M operating system with GUI and "WYSIWYG" typography on the monitor and printing. Framework offered all this however in the first all-in-one package to run on any PC platform. It was preceded by a few months by its close rival Lotus Symphony. Unlike other integrated products Framework was not created as "plug-in" ...

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framework

Noun

  1. The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.
  2. The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.
  3. A basic conceptual structure.
    These ‘three principles of connexion’ comprise the framework of principles in Hume's account of the association of ideas.
  4. The identification and categorisation of processes or steps that constitute a complex task or mindset in order to render explicit the tacit and implicit.


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