Re: ... Spreadsheet ...

In article <48176827.2000807@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Gilbert Giappesi  <gilgiapp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>In the year you are quoting -1979 -  there was an IBM APL product by the 
>name of A.D.R.S. (A Departmental Reporting System).
>I think it was supposed at that time, to offer an alternative to the 
>LOTUS 1,2,3 spreadsheet, with the flexibilty to create/insert own 
>formulas as functions .... It was using the dispaly Auxiliary Processor 
>to navigate inside the spreadsheet.
>As far as I remember, a very large number of functions were residing 
>into an accessible file by invoking its name in a certain way that 
>extracted it and included it inside the WS.
>An option was the entire package residing inside the WS.
>
>Is this what you are thinking of in the below quotation ?
>
>Seth a écrit :
>>   
>> Actually there was a spreadsheet (grid and easy view of data) written
>> in APL before 1979 (which was when I saw it).

No; the one I saw was an internal product of a company that used APL
(and who probably wouldn't care if I mentioned their name, but I
signed a confidentiality agreement).

Seth