Re: Wingz 2.1 spreadsheet at MacWorld Boston!

In article <4tislv$8c2@hacgate2.hac.com>, S L B <vee10viper@aol.com> wrote: [quoted text moved for clarity] > In article <Steve-2907960915310001@dwilson.vip.best.com> Steve Wilson, > Steve@emer.com writes: > >In article <vlod-2907961407580001@vulture.iisc.co.uk>, vlod@iisc.co.uk > >(vlod kalicun) wrote: > > > >> You guys might be interested in a new spreadsheet for the macintosh. > You may be able to lure new Mac folks in, but us oldies remember Wingz > and I doubt it'll sell. Good luck, though. I'd love to see someone slap > MS Gates and Co. > dunno what your problem with wingz was, the only problem I ever found with it was insufficient marketing muscle to push Excel from it's perch. On an 8Mb IIfx it didn't choke til it had 20,000 rows by 20 columns with one of the columns having a 13 level nested if statement, if I did that on my 840 in Excel 5 I could take a months leave while the sheet recalculated... and even when it choked, it did so gracefully (with an apologetic out of memory error). We've still got one guy using it on an 8500, prefers it to excle 5 coz it's leaner and quicker (same arg for excel 4). YMMV Have Fun Martin -- ******************************************************************************** * Martin Crisp B.Sc. <mcrisp@toursr.tas.gov.au> * * Mac & PC (blech!), network, mail support/admin * * * * My page at my employer: * * <http://www.tourism.tas.gov.au/employees/Martin_Crisp/>; * * * * My employer's home page: My business's home page (shh): * * <http://www.tourism.tas.gov.au/>; <http://www.tasmall.com.au/tesseract/>; * * * * The opinions expressed "I complained because I had no * * above are mine alone unless PowerMac; then I met a man who * * explicitly stated otherwise. used Windows." --Cloyce Sutton * ********************************************************************************