Interesting that Excel was developed first for the Mac. Excel also used p-code [1][2] for its cross-platform abilities: "had a compiler which, back in the 198

Interesting that Excel was developed first for the Mac. Excel also used p-code [1][2] for its cross-platform abilities: "had a compiler which, back in the 1980s, generated pcode and could therefore run unmodified on Macintosh’s 68000 chip as well as Intel PCs." It would be interesting to see the first version of excel on Mac, the windows version in the article looks very familiar. [1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/14/in-defense-of-not-invented-here-syndrome/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/14/in-defense-of-not-... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9254060 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9254060