[geeks] And The Linux Weenies Wonder Why They Aren't Mainstream...`

Thu Mar 2 13:53:36 CST 2006

On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 02:13:41PM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Excel was basically a clone of Lotus 123 when first introduced.

No it was not. It was a spreadsheet with a GUI, one of the first
programs for the Macintosh, Lotus was a direct ripoff of Visicalc by
their marketing rep.

In case any one cares, the largest developer of programs for the Macintosh 
always was and still is Microsoft. 

Excel may have lost some of it's goodness when it was ported to Windows.
Word was ported to DOS and really lost almost everything that made it
worthwhile.

Geoff.
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