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To: HerbVic who wrote (25741)	7/29/1999 10:19:00 AM
From: BillHoo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213186

Yea, somethin' like that! -Bill_H

To: HerbVic who wrote (25741)	7/30/1999 1:53:00 PM
From: FruJu	Respond to of 213186

Actually, Multiplan was indeed Microsoft's original spreadsheet for the Mac 128K - one of the first applications which shipped for it other than MacWrite/MacPaint. Excel was a completely different code base than Multiplan, and required 512K of RAM to run, and was released in early 1985. However, it was also a completely new product for the Macintosh. Excel did not exist on Windows until at least a couple of years later. For the first two years in fact, Excel was a very strong reason for buying a Macintosh, since it was the only graphical power-user spreadsheet available.