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Answer» I'm sure some people might remember this television program that was on for a good... number of years. I dunno, looks to me like Excel just looks nicer, Lotus probably did all the stuff Excel did if you used it right. Did you watch the videos? Excel had it's own windowing system. it could show charts and graphs at the same time. It used Pixel-precision drawing (something that took immense horsepower under normal circumstances). 1-2-3 (the proper shortening of a product is to call it by it's name, not the company name, FYI) was a disgusting white on blue that had been abandoned years before by everybody else, Lotus 3.0 was taking years to be released and the fact that Excel pretty much exceeded all the features of 3.0 (mean, come on, even at that time having to switch from Text Mode to a graphics mode to show a chart was starting to become old), considering even that version wasn't released for another good year after that show was recorded (the version that was being demoed was in fact a pre-release version of Lotus 1-2-3) during this time Excel took over the market, and now Lotus is just a brand name that IBM puts on a few products it ACQUIRED from that company. Even full impact, which was trying to be a graphical equivalent, failed in many ways; unlike Excel, you couldn't edit directly in the "presentation view" you had to switch back to the plain text mode, make a change, and switch back. More importantly, I've used Lotus 1-2-3, and I've used that version (well, I think it was a little newer) of Excel, so I can tell you first hand that Excel is about a billion times more intuitive, since it used the emerging menu standard of Alt-letter key combinations for the menus, whereas Lotus still required the ancient slash menu. Cool stuff BC, thanks for sharing.Quote from: Quantos on December 01, 2010, 10:26:48 PM Cool stuff BC, thanks for sharing. you bet.. HEH.. I just had a sneak peek at the new thing Apple is going to release soon... it's called the "Macintosh"... Quote from: BC_Programmer on December 02, 2010, 01:28:03 AM you bet..I might find a way to miss it, I might even miss it ENTIRELY. Hey, how would you like to miss them mlutilple times with me |
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