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A comment on VisiCalc: Information from Its Creators, Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston.

Re:VisiCalc: Information from Its Creators, Dan Bricklin and... by ngcc_hk on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @09:52PM (#28229457)
Spreadsheet. You know you can use sas to run spreadsheet in the mainframe in those days.
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Re:VisiCalc: Information from Its Creators, Dan Bricklin and... by infradig on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @11:22PM (#28229997)
Which is basically what Bob Frankston did in the 60s which is where the idea came from to do it interactively. Hence the Visi part of the name.
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