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From: ssircar@ecs.umass.edu (Good writers re-write -- not write!)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Unimpressed with Lotus 123 r 3.1
Message-ID: <13247.280b286e@ecs.umass.edu>
Date: 16 Apr 91 16:38:06 GMT
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In article <16563@chaph.usc.edu>, bjones@aludra.usc.edu (Brian Jones) writes:
> I would just like to state that I am unimpressed with Lotus 123R3.1...  It is
> supposed to run under windows, but it doesn't really.  I find the Bitstream
> WYSIWYG slow and at times annoying to use.  I was hoping for something really
> great when I bought it, but I was sure let down.  It advertised that it *works*
> with Windows 3.0, and indeed it does...  but not really, It runs only as a dos
> application.  I feel I wasted the $400... I think I will go get Excel tomorrow.
> Engineers cannot do without their *Fast* spreadsheets, and Lotus just doesn't
> cut it...
> 
> I had to get that out of my system...
> 
> Have a nice day.
> 
> Brian Jones
I use Lotus 2.01 and am thinking to buy v3.1/G.  My friend has the latest 
version of Excel.  I've used both and prefer Lotus.  Even though I can't run it
under Windows, I consider it to be more powerful.  My friend is also planning
to buy the new version of Lotus because of the same opinion.  Do you need to
run applications under Windows?  Won't it run faster under DOS?
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