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From: ali@navajo.STANFORD.EDU (Ali Ozer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Spreadsheets & stuff
Message-ID: <808@navajo.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Fri, 29-Aug-86 02:07:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: navajo.808
Posted: Fri Aug 29 02:07:30 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 30-Aug-86 03:12:50 EDT
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Reply-To: ali@navajo.UUCP (Ali Ozer)
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Organization: Stanford University
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Keywords: VIP Professional, Spreadsheets

>:-o      <--- Finally, a picture of THE line eater!


In article <223@plx.UUCP> ed@plx.UUCP (Ed Chaban) writes:
>	Does anyone out there have any opinions on some of the amiga
>	spreadsheets on the market.  I just bought Maxiplan and wish
>	I had not!  Did they write this thing in Lattice or Manx?
>
>	I realize that 1/2meg is not enough for the amiga but running
>	out of memory when you only have 20 columns and 4 rows is 
>	ridiculous!  

I played with VIP Professional a bit, and it seems like
a great product. I ran through the demos they have (which just
go through the various features by simulating keyboard input),
and I was impressed. I did not push it to its limits, but with 512K,
it told me that 36K were available for the worksheet. (The source code 
is 400K or so!) I am not sure how many rows and columns that is, but
it probably is more than 20 x 4.

I had the program go through the graph demos, and it drew real
pretty pie charts and histograms on the screen. But it did not look
like the program was specifically written for the Amiga; it did not
use menus & stuff... In fact, the program is apparently modeled after 
Lotus 1-2-3. In any case, I liked the program.

(No, no, I do not work for whoever makes VIP Professional. I don't even
 know who makes it...)

Ali Ozer,  Ali@score.stanford.edu