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In article <1992Jul30.045417.12535@ucc.su.OZ.AU>,
simon@archsci.arch.su.oz.au (Simon Hayman) wrote:
> 
> Just thought that I start a thread to see how users of Trapeze (the world's
> best spreadsheet) are going. I've been running it for about a year now under
> System 7 (no 32 bit) without problems. A colleague has informed me that there
> can be problems with the 10th (last) data set in a chart but I have not
> reproduced this.
> 
> Of course, the real question is why did it die - is it just another example of
> the victory of mediocrity?
> 
> (Usual disclaimers apply...) 

I ran Trapeze under System 7 fairly successfully - some highlighting
problems,
nothing serious - but had to abandon it when I got a Quadra with 64 MB RAM.
It's
senseless to hobble my progress to an obsolete, unsupported program.

I miss Trapeze terribly. Its histogram function has never to my knowledge
shown
up in any other spreadsheet; unlike Excel, you can have numerous databases 
defined on a given worksheet and use formulas that reference any of them
from
anywhere. Oh! to be able to make a chart by creating a cell and typing 
"scatterchart(x,y)"! Its iteration scheme made a fine test-bed for checking
out numerical algorithms.

Sometimes I wish DeltaPoint would make the Trapeze source code available to
the
programming public. After all, Trapeze was developed by Access Technology,
a 
company that has long since passed beyond the veil. The programmers who
wrote
Trapeze have surely scattered, team lifetimes being very short in this
business
(any of you out there??).

If the source were available, surely it would be possible for two or three
of
us to seek out the incompatibilities and replace with compliant code - or 
not?

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