Borland Quattro Pro
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Basic data
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developer | Borland |
Publishing year | 1988 |
Current version | X9 / 19.0.0.325 (May 23, 2018) |
operating system | DOS , Windows |
programming language | Assembler |
category | Spreadsheet program |
License | Proprietary |
German speaking | Yes |
www.corel.com |
Borland Quattro Pro is a spreadsheet program that was developed by Borland and was mostly used as part of the WordPerfect Office suite . Corel has been selling the product since 1996 . When the product came onto the market in 1988, it was initially called Quattro (the Italian name for "four" as a logical consequence of Lotus 1-2-3 ). Borland changed the name to Quattro Pro from the 1990s release .
history
Borland Quattro
The original program was written mainly in assembler at the DOS level by Adam Bosworth and Lajos Frank . At first it was a commercial flop.
Borland Quattro Pro
A replacement product called "Surpass" was then purchased in Modula-2 . The main developers and programmers Bob Warfield, Dave Anderson, Weikuo Liaw, Bob Richardson and Todd Landis were hired by Borland to ultimately bring Surpass to market under a new name as Quattro Pro .
Bob Warfield's predecessor was "Farsight" from Farsight Technologies. It was one of the first calculation products to have “window windows”. It was written in Modula-2. A special feature was that the printer drivers were compiled directly during installation.
Farsight was very popular in schools as it was around 50% cheaper than Lotus or Excel .
- Version 2.0 for DOS
Version 2.0, released in 1990, offered 3D graphics and a solver (Solve For) for the first time.
Versions
- 1987: Quattro 1.0
- 1989: Quattro Pro 1.0
- 1991: Quattro Pro 2.0
- 1992: Quattro Pro for Windows 1.0 - ( also in Borland Office for Windows (1993) )
- 1993: Quattro Pro for Windows 5.0 - ( also in Borland Office 2.0 for Windows )
- 1994: Quattro Pro for Windows 6.0 ( included in Novell PerfectOffice 3.0 )
- 1996: Quattro Pro 7 ( included in Corel WordPerfect Suite 7 )
- 1998: Quattro Pro 8 ( included in Corel WordPerfect Suite 8 )
- 2000: Quattro Pro 9 ( included in Corel WordPerfect Office 2000 )
- 2002: Quattro Pro 10 ( included in Corel WordPerfect Office 2002 )
- 2003: Quattro Pro 11 ( included in Corel WordPerfect Office 11 )
- 2004: Quattro Pro 12 ( included in Corel WordPerfect Office 12 )
- 2006: Quattro Pro X3 ( included in Corel WordPerfect Office X3 )
- 2008: Quattro Pro X4 ( only as English language version in Corel WordPerfect Office X4 )
- 2010: Quattro Pro X5 ( only as English language version in Corel WordPerfect Office X5 )
- 2012: Quattro Pro X6 ( only as English language version in Corel WordPerfect Office X6 )
- 2014: Quattro Pro X7 ( only as English language version in Corel WordPerfect Office X7 )
See also
literature
- Melcher, Manfred: Quattro Pro 2.0, te-wi 1991, ISBN 3-89362-112-1 .
- Kofler, Michael: Quattro Pro 3.0, Vogel 1991, ISBN 3-8023-0384-9 .
- Huber, Herbert: Quattro Pro 4.0, Dtv 1996, ISBN 3-423-50125-1 .