>  SB>the only decent product they have released is Excel.  The others are
 >  JA> There is Much that I don't know, and "Excel" is one of them.  Is
 >  JA> that a Reduced Instruction Set Platform?
 >         Excel is a spreadsheet program.  As with most
 > of their software,
 > the original idea came from a different company
 > (probably Lotus 1-2-3).
Try VisiCalc, written by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston, for the Apple II 
(pre-Macintosh.)  It was the first software program that convinced MBAs that 
they needed to buy a computer just to be able to run the application. Lotus 
was merely the company that produced the first popular spreadsheet clone for 
the PC under PC and MS-DOS. VisiCalc started on the Apple II and then a 
version for CP/M was released.
Larry
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