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From: meyer@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Don Meyer)
Subject: Re: Excel for OS/2
Message-ID: <1991Apr1.232008.17288@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1991 23:20:08 GMT
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GD.SAR@forsythe.stanford.edu (Sandy Rockowitz) writes:

>Has anyone had experience using the OS/2 version of Excel?
>Is it as mindless a port as Word appears to be, or does it actually
>take advantage OS/2?

Excel for OS/2 would seem to be an application that is actually ported to PM, 
rather than recompiled with that infernal SMK.  It works quite well -- I use
it exclusively over Lotus 123.  

However, I've found that our favorite Microsoft programmers still haven't
mastered the "art" of using more than one thread -- the hourglass still appears
during recalc.

(This is version 2.2, not 3.0.  Who knows? they might have fixed it in 3.0.)


Don
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