RE: Excel - was RE: How do you calm down the hot-heads?

From: Chuck Kuecker (ckuecker@ckent.org)
Date: Thu Sep 11 2003 - 16:52:36 MDT

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    I wish I could dump Windows - but I am stuck. Protel (schematic capture and
    PCB layout) does not support Linux or Mac, and neither do most of my
    embedded development applications.

    Chuck Kuecker

    At 08:19 09/11/2003 -0700, you wrote:

    >-----Original Message-----
    >From: Chuck Kuecker
    >
    >Subject: Excel - was RE: How do you calm down the hot-heads?
    >
    >As far as I am concerned, Mr. Gates more than made up for Excel with
    >Windows...
    >
    >Ja, so don't use it.
    >
    >...Anyway, which came first - Excel or Lotus 123? Seems to me Lotus was
    >out
    >first, and Microsoft stole their lunch... Chuck Kuecker
    >
    >Ja, Lotus was first, and Visicalc was before
    >either of those, but both Lotus and Excel made
    >important contributions. Excel couldn'ta devoured
    >Lotus' lunch if it wasn't better. Either way, its a
    >first class engineering tool. Granted, windows
    >is a last class system, and many of us are stuck
    >using it, but at home we still have the Mac choice.
    >
    >spike

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