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...computer software is more popular than Lotus 1-2-3, the electronic spreadsheet program that has sold 5 million copies since 1984. But Lotus Development Corp.'s domination of the $600 million U.S. market for such software has been threatened by an 18-month delay in the company's production of an improved program called Release 3. When the company, based in Cambridge, Mass., finally began shipping Release 3 last week, many experts realized that the program is essentially a new product rather than a simple upgrade. Boasts Lotus chairman Jim Manzi: "There's nothing like it on earth...
...powerful new machines cannot be fully used without up-to-date software. Among the more worrisome recent delays: Ashton-Tate's new version of a financial program hit stores three months behind schedule. And Lotus is almost a year late with its long-promised improved 1-2-3 financial spreadsheet...
Lotus 1-2-3 for IBM compatibles and Microsoft's Excel for the cuter personal computer's around campus are spreadsheet programs that allow users to crunch and compare numerous columns and rows of numbers are suitably mangled, they can be turned into snazzy graphs. IBM--compatible users will need a printer that can produce graphics, Mac users will find that the Imagewriter suffices...
There are some cute utilities available, such as Sideways, a program which prints spreadsheet and other files sideways on a printer, allowing an unlimited number of columns. Another helpful program is the Norton Utilities, which is useful for recovering lost files or fixing messed-up disks...
More than 300 students now use a new computer room in the basement of the K-School's Littauer Center. Students use the room's 30 p.c.'s to run spreadsheet and statistics programs. James Stock, assistant professor of public policy and a member of the faculty computer committee, said yesterday...