GrandView (software) explained

GrandView
Developer:	Symantec
Latest Release Version:	2.0
Latest Release Date:	1990
Operating System:	MS-DOS
Genre:	Personal information management Outliner
License:	Proprietary

GrandView is an outlining and personal information management (PIM) application originally developed by Living Videotext.^[1] Living Videotext was acquired by Symantec in 1987. Grandview was sold until the early 1990s and is no longer supported by Symantec.It closely resembled PC-Outline, an outliner for IBM PCs of the 1980s, authored by John Friend. Grandview was derived from the same software.

Reception

BYTE in 1989 listed GrandView as among the "Distinction" winners of the BYTE Awards, stating that it was "packed with goodies" and worth the time necessary to learn how to use it.^[2]

See also

• Outliner

External links

• Compute! magazine review of Grandview 2.0, 1992
• Home Office Computing review, 1991
• History of Symantec Corporation
• A version of GrandView 2.0 for DOS that is completely portable, fully functional, and ready to run on any modern version of Windows up to Windows 10, using vDos-lfn
• GrandView 2.0 Reference Guide 737 pages

Notes and References

1. GrandView Outliner Integrates Classic Features and New Tools . . June 14, 1988 . February 13, 2015.
2. January 1989 . The BYTE Awards . BYTE . 332.