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Kind of tangential but the article talks about VisiCalc, Lotus 1-2-3, and Excel but somehow fails to mention Microsoft's Multiplan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
by ThrowawayB7 4y ago
Kind of tangential but the article talks about VisiCalc, Lotus 1-2-3, and Excel but somehow fails to mention Microsoft's Multiplan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplan) which was released the year before Lotus 1-2-3 came out. Granted, it wasn't that popular or successful, but it shows that, contrary to what some seem to think, Microsoft was contending in the spreadsheet arena long, long before Excel was even a glimmer on the horizon.
- agiacalone 4y agoFrom the article: “They released an early spreadsheet tool called Multiple [sic] in 1982. But Lotus 1-2-3 was the first killer application for the PC.”