BRUNO was the first commercial computer software program for creating presentations (

Presentation program A computing, a presentation program (also called presentation software) is a software package used to display information in the form of a slide show. It has three major functions: * an editor that allows text to be inserted and formatted * a ...

) using a

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user interface. BRUNO, which originated on the

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F-Series computer, was developed by Jim Long and Philip Walden of

. The application was finished in 1979 and was used around the world by HP customers. BRUNO was later ported to the

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and renamed HP-Draw.HPDRAW
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Trivia

* Bruno was named after a hand puppet used to train field sales representatives. * Bruno became HP-Draw mostly because Robert Dea, a HP-3000 team member, and Philip Walden shared work topics during their long van pool rides.

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