Microsoft Multiplan
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| developer | Microsoft |
| Publishing year | 1982 |
| operating system | Commodore 64 , Texas Instruments TI-99 / 4A , Apple II , Apple Macintosh , CP / M , DOS , Xenix , CTOS |
| category | Spreadsheet |
| License | Proprietary |
| German speaking | Yes |
Microsoft Multiplan was a spreadsheet program from Microsoft .
history
Multiplan was published in 1982, initially for CP / M and MS-DOS / PC DOS , later also for the Apple II operating system and the Apple Macintosh . There was also a version for the Commodore 64 .
The biggest competitor was Lotus 1-2-3 , which dominated the market for IBM PCs and computers compatible with them , as it displayed calculation results faster and could also display results graphically.
Microsoft Excel can be seen as the successor to Microsoft Multiplan. It supported the mouse as an input device on all platforms , with Multiplan this was only the case with graphical platforms, i.e. Macintosh and Windows, which was unsuccessful in the first version. The DOS mouse driver was not supported. After the release of Windows 2.03 and about a year after the Apple Macintosh , Multiplan was no longer developed.
Microsoft Multiplan had only moderate success in the US and did not achieve more than 15 percent market share there . The quick translation into German made the program a success in German-speaking countries with a market share of 50 percent. In 1990, with the release of the last version 4.2, the development of Multiplan was stopped, as Microsoft had already established Excel in parallel on the market since 1987.
With the Microsoft Chart program , Multiplan documents could be presented graphically.
Row and column names
In contrast to the very first spreadsheet program Visicalc and later Lotus 1-2-3, in which the rows were labeled with numbers and the columns with letters, Multiplan identified them using a different system. They were (in the system R1C1 R ow 1, C olumn 1), etc. referenced R2C2, in German R1C1 , which as an alternative display variant: also feed has been found in the later Excel (German R1C1 reference). The cell in the 3rd row and the 15th column, for example, had the "coordinate" Z3S15. In Lotus and other spreadsheet programs, this cell would be called O3.
Versions
- DOS
- 1982: 1.0 - First version for IBM PC
- 1983: 1.1
- 1985: 2.0 - expansion of cells from 63 × 256 to 255 × 485
- 1987: 3.0 - LAN support
- 1988: 4.0 - for DOS and OS / 2
- 1989: 4.1 - bug fix
- 1990: 4.2
- XENIX
- 2.0
- macintosh
- 1984: 1.0
- 1985: 1.1
- Commodore 64/128
- 1983: 1.06
- TI-99 / 4A
- 1981: 1.04
See also
- SYLK data format
literature
- Gisela Semrau: Multiplan , Vieweg 1985, ISBN 3-528-04423-3
- Bernd Kretschmer: MULTIPLAN on the COMMODORE 64. A systematic introduction , Vogel 1985, ISBN 3-8023-0799-2
- Peter Albrecht: Multiplan for the tailor CPC , Markt & Technik 1985, ISBN 3-89090-186-7
- Thorsten Ritter: Schneider CPC - Success with Multiplan , SYBEX 1986, ISBN 3-88745-639-4
- Gerd Heise: Problem solutions with Multiplan 3 and Chart 3 , Markt & Technik 1988, ISBN 3-89090-686-9
- Ruth K. Witkin: Finanz-Management mit Multiplan 4.2 , Vieweg 1990, ISBN 3-528-14429-7
- Marlene Greil: MS Multiplan , Wolframs Fachverlag 1991, ISBN 3-925328-41-6
- Besser, Höver, Tiemeyer: Standard software table calculation Multiplan , Rowohlt 1992, ISBN 3-499-18146-0