commit deb68a4c3541769f4fd118995d63f8c6a461ac15
parent 6771c383d06fd37545dc11d844b0b6a1cbb089ab
Author: Tomas Hlavaty <tom@logand.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 19:53:13 +0200
README updated
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- for "unanticipated" delayed calculations, like portable full text
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+http://www.bricklin.com/firstspreadsheetquestion.htm
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+ But VisiCalc was not an accounting program at all, it just made it
+ possible for people to do accounting. Programs that were overly
+ tuned for such function (Javelin, Lotus Improv, etc.) completely
+ failed...What made VisiCalc novel was the ability to not only
+ interact but have it learn by example. Again, VisiCalc doesn't
+ summarize or do anything, it is just a tool to allow others to work
+ out their ideas and reduce the tedium of repeating the same
+ calculations.
