jackb@hpfinote.HP.COM (Jack Benzel) (09/14/90)
Back in early June I caught an episode of "The Computer Chronicles", a video news magazine kind of show on computers on public broadcasting. There was a little blurb about Lotus 1-2-3 being announced for UNIX by the end of the month(July). I haven't heard a word since. Did I get my hopes up for nothing? Jack Benzel jackb@hpfcla.HP.COM
betz@marob.masa.com (Tom Betz) (09/16/90)
Quoth jackb@hpfinote.HP.COM (Jack Benzel) in <15030019@hpfinote.HP.COM>: |Back in early June I caught an episode of "The Computer Chronicles", a video |news magazine kind of show on computers on public broadcasting. There was a |little blurb about Lotus 1-2-3 being announced for UNIX by the end of the |month(July). I haven't heard a word since. Did I get my hopes up for nothing? It's available from several sources. I was quoted $1025 for a ten-user license and one set of docs. It's supposed to be the equivalent of the MS-DOS Version 3. -- -----------------------------------------------------| hombre!marob!upaya!tbetz "Ever since the fateful day when Al heard about | that `Follow Your Bliss' thing, it's been just | Tom Betz - GBS cannoli, cannoli, and more cannoli." - Peter Hannah | (914) 375-1510
timsb@adspp.uucp (Tim S. Boshart) (09/16/90)
In article <15030019@hpfinote.HP.COM> jackb@hpfinote.HP.COM (Jack Benzel) writes: }Back in early June I caught an episode of "The Computer Chronicles", a video }news magazine kind of show on computers on public broadcasting. There was a }little blurb about Lotus 1-2-3 being announced for UNIX by the end of the }month(July). I haven't heard a word since. Did I get my hopes up for nothing? } No, it is out. I have it sitting on the shelf next to my desk. -- Tim S. Boshart - MicroAge/Abacus - 2707 Middlebury St. - Elkhart, IN 46516 timsb@adspp.UUCP - uunet!rutgers!iuvax!ndmath!nstar!adspp!timsb uunet!sco!romed!adspp!timsb
aris@tabbs.UUCP (Aris Stathakis) (09/20/90)
In article <15030019@hpfinote.HP.COM> jackb@hpfinote.HP.COM (Jack Benzel) writes: >Back in early June I caught an episode of "The Computer Chronicles", a video >news magazine kind of show on computers on public broadcasting. There was a >little blurb about Lotus 1-2-3 being announced for UNIX by the end of the >month(July). I haven't heard a word since. Did I get my hopes up for nothing? Yes, i've played with this product. It seems a bit buggy (seems to hang every once in a while), but otherwise I think it can evolve into a great product. It is Lotus 1-2-3 release 3 compatible. The version I used was a single user version, but the release notes said there was also a 10 user version available. One annoying thing is that you had to specify one username on that system that would be using Lotus and it would only let that one username execute the program. One strange thing I noticed is that the single user version let that same user run Lotus multiple times on the console multi-screens. The graphs worked great on my VGA screen, though I never tried using Lotus on any terminals. The product consisted of 6 1.2 MB disks which were packed using 'pack'. The product would also install on several different UNIX's from the same distribution disks - SCO Xenix, SCO UNIX, Interactive and one other which I can't remember at this time. I tried it under SCO Open Desktop. I also believe that Lotus have released 123 under SUNOS, VMS, and for some strange IBM mainframe operating system. Hope this helps you. Aris -- Aris Stathakis | Bang: ..!uunet!ddsw1!olsa99!tabbs!aris or aris@tabbs.UUCP - UNIX is like pickled herring - Nobody thinks it's any good - - Until they've tried it! -