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> Doing math on a 2D grid of cells is the technology that Excel perfected in the 80s Lotus 1-2-3 gets that specific credit, I think. But Excel is so much more
by kbolino 3y ago
> Doing math on a 2D grid of cells is the technology that Excel perfected in the 80s
Lotus 1-2-3 gets that specific credit, I think. But Excel is so much more than that (for good or ill).
- chuckadams 3y agoVisicalc would have been the first. In the early years of the PC, Visicorp was bigger than Microsoft -- mostly from their sales on the Apple II. They never had much success on the PC platform, which is where Lotus ate their lunch.
- kbolino 3y agoYeah, "first on micros" definitely goes to VisiCalc. But "perfected in the 80s" I definitely think goes to Lotus. And while Microsoft was a contemporary developer of spreadsheet software, Excel didn't become dominant until the 90s.