Re: Wingz 2.1 spreadsheet at MacWorld Boston!

Problem? Well, how 'bout the fact that it went away! If someone needs a spreadsheet badly, I'd think they'd need the thing to remain supported/upgraded to have success. I bought and loved lots of software that "died" but I'd be skeptical to buy it again if it popped up on the market. -Scott In article <mcrisp-3007961724580001@martin.toursr.tas.gov.au> Martin Crisp, mcrisp@toursr.tas.gov.au writes: >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). > Scott L. Boettcher Computer Sciences Corporation (714) 446-3173 (Office/Voice) sboettcher@ccgate.hac.com scott@ess.ucla.edu 103146,2564@compuserve.com