Subject: FYI: Versatile Chinese Language Software Package

From: Tin-Fook Ngai <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 90 22:22:36 PDT

The Institute, the IEEE newspaper, reports in its October issue:

> VERSATILE CHINESE LANGUAGE SOFTWARE PACKAGE. Bipolar Culture and
> Technology, a company in Shenzhen Science and Industry Park, Shenzhen,
> China, has developed Collected Treasures, a software package that offers
> word processing, graphics, database, spreadsheet, windows, and typesetting
> in Chinese on only two floppy disks.  In contrast, other packages -- in
> any language -- may require up to two dozen disks.  The sponsor of the
> project, an entrepreneur from Taiwan, reportedly spent only Renminbi
> 800 000 (US $170 000) on 15 programmers who used assembly language to
> develop the package.

[It sounds too good to be true.  Is there anyone who knows more about this
package/project?  TF.]