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Article #73565Re: free software creates a new kind of [free] monopoly?
From: Leonard Norrgard
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1991 01:41
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1991 01:41
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In article <14315@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> julian@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Julian Cowley) writes: ... system is finished. Already a spreadsheet, Oleo, is being worked on, for instance, and it is high time that such a free spreadsheet be available. Many people will also see the ... Cf. AnalytiCalc for the Amiga, by Glenn Everhart. It comes with source and seems to have been in development since at least 1977. Available on the Fred Fish Amiga Library disks (or fish disks for short), a recent version seems to be on ff495. Many ftp sites carry the fish disks. From the disk: (this description obviously leaves out a lot of info) >AnalytiCalc The AnalytiCalc spreadsheet, directly executable. This > version features operation with only one window, many > "3 dimensional" sheet addressing primitives, and > optional execution from icons. Two images are furnished, > one for smaller and one for large internal storage (though > both have software virtual memory if needed). These > images operate OK under AmigaDos 1.2, 1.3, and 2.0. > They include code allowing the spreadsheet to be treated > as a series of "pages" so that a cell has a row, column, > and (optionally) page, and ranges can be in depth along > pages as well as along rows or columns. The mapping is > flexible enough so that it can be used to facilitate > computing traces of matrices if desired, as well as for > more conventional use. Version V25-03B, an update to > version V24-01a on disk 328. Includes source. > Author: Glenn Everhart Julian Cowley <julian@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu> -- Leonard
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,566ddbfb9b33042 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-08-21 20:35:53 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!fauern!ira.uka.de!yale.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!funic!nic!vinsci From: vinsci@nic.funet.fi (Leonard Norrgard) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: free software creates a new kind of [free] monopoly? Message-ID: <VINSCI.91Aug22034127@nic.nic.funet.fi> Date: 22 Aug 91 01:41:27 GMT References: <28905A22.42C6@ibma0.cs.uiuc.edu> <1991Jul26.210525.8796@visix.com> <14315@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> Sender: vinsci@nic.funet.fi (Leonard Norrgard) Organization: Soft Service, Inc. Lines: 36 In-Reply-To: julian@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu's message of 10 Aug 91 11:09:02 GMT