Applixware is a suite of modular applications edited by Vistasource, Inc.
Applixware was originally created by Applix, Inc.
Alis
Applix's first office suite, introduced in 1986, was called Alis, and was marketed with Alice's Adventures in Wonderland themed promotional items. One such was a mug depicting the tea party scene from the book, with a Cheshire Cat that disappeared when the mug was filled with a hot beverage.
Alis was available for Unix workstations from Digital Equipment Corporation, Sun Microsystems and others. Two site licenses were sold for Digital's VMS operating system, one to ExxonMobil and one to a brokerage in New York City.
In addition to providing a graphical office suite environment with a number of modules including graphics editor and word processing functions, very advanced for the time, Alis was distinguished by a very powerful scripting language called "ELF" (Extended Language Facility), which was capable of, for example, reading spreadsheet data, performing calculations on it, and merging results into text documents.
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