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From: aglew@mcdurb.Urbana.Gould.COM
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: look and feel
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Date: 17 Mar 89 19:18:00 GMT
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Nf-From: mcdurb.Urbana.Gould.COM!aglew    Mar 17 13:18:00 1989


>>At what point does the spreadsheet become other than a clone of Lotus
>>1-2-3, whether by additional functionality, different behavior or
>>appearance,
>
>or if its name happens to be Visicalc:-)

Umm... I'm a believer in Free Software myself, but give credit
where credit is due: Lotus' interface was a lot better than Visicalc's.
To the underlying spreadsheet idea Lotus added one line scrolling menus
with a built in help line, menus by highlighting, etc.  I, at least,
found Lotus a lot easier to use than Visicalc.

I do not know if all of these "Look and Feel" ideas originated with Lotus,
but I hadn't seen them in other commercial pacakages.