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Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: David Kurtz
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 07:26
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In article <davis-1801961921220001@pppsb5.itg.ti.com>,
davis@adrs1.dseg.ti.com (Tom L. Davis) wrote:


>    > Claris Works spreadsheet module
>    
>    This is not a real spreadsheet. This is a toy spreadsheet. Good for what
>    it does, but it doesn't do a whole lot. 

????
It *is* a real spreadsheet. The module alone does more than the first two
incarnations of Excel. Add that to the rest of ClarisWorks's features and
you have a very capable, very fast, and very usable spreadsheet. Tell me:
what features make the distinction between "toy" and "real" spreadsheets?

-- 
David A. Kurtz                   
david@ucla.edu
david@lightside.net                                          http://www.lightside.net/~david/  
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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: 19 Jan 1996 07:26:10 GMT
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