#Lotus 123 history Pc
It was written in tight assembly code, accepting the limitation of making porting to other computers more difficult (it couldn't run on Apple's 6502-based computers or many others) to get the speed needed on the soon-to-be-dominant IBM PC (which it helped make dominant). It addressed the core complaints about VisiCalc (lack of thousands separators in numbers and lack of individually settable column widths) and much more. It used the extra memory and the knowledge that there could be two disks to provide much better command prompts and a real context sensitive help system. It took advantage of the new hardware, making great use of the IBM PC's keyboard, even coming with a molded template to label the function keys.
#Lotus 123 history manual
For example, it had VisiCalc's "A1, B1, C1" row/column naming, unlike the techie "R1C1" and the like of Multiplan, but it added optional "$" characters in the cell coordinates instead of the manual "relative or absolute" of VisiCalc. It used what was good from before, such as lots of features from VisiCalc, but changed things for the better where it was most helpful. One major thing about 1-2-3 was that the implementation and design choices were very pragmatic. These "lower precision motions" are really nice for common operations. You just do a swipe in from the right place or a tap on a large area. Unlike on other devices I've used, you don't have to carefully tap small icons to get favorites or tabs. IE gives you the whole screen, but gets you the tabs and other "chrome" with a simple gesture or two. I really love the UI of the "Modern" style Internet Explorer. But the touch interface really does add a lot to using apps that are tuned to it, and even those that aren't. It does especially great as an "on table" tablet when reading during lunch.
#Lotus 123 history windows
I am quite used to my 11" MacBook Air (that is, using a small screen and device), and this feels enough like a Windows equivalent. This is a fast enough machine, with enough memory and a high enough resolution screen for real work. It's not like my old netbook, where it seemed like a "real" Windows computer but way slower and with a screen with too little resolution. I have Thunderbird, with all my mail accounts and addresses, I have Microsoft Office, Access, Adobe Cloud (Photoshop, and lots more), photos, Firefox, Chrome, my speaking material and the apps I use to show it, and Microsoft SkyDrive. I spent some time on and off over the next few days loading it up with most of what I run on my main Windows machine.
What I found was that it was just a curiosity at first, since it was pretty much like my Surface RT, except heavier and with a higher-resolution screen. A lot has been written about the Surface Pro, so I won't say too much here.