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The chronological order was VisiCalc, then Lotus123, then Excel. Microsoft had a spreadsheet tool called Multiplan during the era of Lotus123, but it didn't get
by stephsmithio 7y ago
The chronological order was VisiCalc, then Lotus123, then Excel. Microsoft had a spreadsheet tool called Multiplan during the era of Lotus123, but it didn't get much traction.
- barbarbar 7y agoAn excellent article you wrote. Great with all the details.
- stephsmithio 7y agoThank you!
- AstroJetson 7y agoLotus123, Calcstar then Multiplan then Excel..
- jaclaz 7y agoOnly for the record, in the "passage" between Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel there was an excellent spreadsheet by Borland (that never got many traction) called "Quattro" (the Italian for 4, as if it was a continuation of the 1-2-3 series): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quattro_Pro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quattro_Pro later it became Quattro Pro and then was acquired by Corel and I believe it is very uncommon nowadays. As a side note, VBA has been added to Excel only after version 4, before that there was only a Macro language. If you want to feel how an ol' version of Excel behaved (without many bells and whistles and of course without the ribbon) there is an exceptionally good little program here: http://www.byedesign.co.uk/ http://www.byedesign.co.uk/ that has most functions and fits (the 32 bit Windows version) in a single (portable) file hust below 1,500,000 bytes. And, JFYI, the sad part is that I wrote my fifth "I love you": >One “I love you” for every year since I’ve fallen in love with...Microsoft Excel? in 1994 or 1995.
- toyg 7y agoHonorable mention for Logistix on Amiga, which I think came out around the same time as Excel or shortly after.