![]() ![]() ![]() 1-2-3 was used to test general application compatibility, with Microsoft Flight Simulator being used to test graphics compatibility. This reliance on the specific hardware of the IBM PC led to 1-2-3 being utilized as one of the two stress test applications for true 100% compatibility when PC clones started to appear in the early 1980s. It was cleanly programmed and relatively bug-free, as well as speed gained from being written completely in x86 assembly language (this remained the case for all versions until 3.0 when Lotus switched to C ) and wrote directly to video memory rather than use the slow DOS and/or BIOS text output functions. ![]() Unlike Microsoft Multiplan, it stayed very close to the model of VisiCalc, including the "A1" letter and number cell notation, and slash-menu structure. ġ-2-3 was released on Januand immediately overtook Visicalc in sales. To aid its growth, in the UK, and possibly elsewhere, Lotus 1-2-3 was the very first computer software to use television consumer advertising. 1-2-3 was originally written by Jonathan Sachs, who had written two spreadsheet programs previously while working at Concentric Data Systems, Inc. Now? □ If you understand what that means you’re prolly as old as I am.The Lotus Development Corporation was founded by Mitchell Kapor, a friend of the developers of VisiCalc. Jonny screwd up my logic by using a character that started with ‘U’ which only represent 1/100 of a % of US names! He was playing to win budday!Ī hundred years ago ago I could have written a Macro in Lotus 123 to figure out the distribution in DC comics using this database. Then subdivide again according to the quarter divisions above for example if a female character does not have a given name from A-J then divide again by asking if it’s from K-M. Here’s male and female given names divided roughly into quarters:ĭoes this make sense? When asking a characters given name, start with the division of A-J for either sex. ![]() While US given names and comic given names are going to be different (I’m sure there’s more Q’s in comics just because of Grant Morrison) it’s a good place to start. If we use ‘A-M’ as a first guess, that actually represents about 70% of the given name distribution. I found a study of the US Census (since DC comics are generally duhwritten in the US). I keep thinking about the “given name” gambit since distribution of names is far from regular across the alphabet. For example, I was worried people would ask ‘Is his skin blue?” when i did Krona. Really, I had no clue until you said it was Hecate’s opposite. I’m thinking about what we could have asked to have gotten on the right track. Question: Jonny, was there a question that you were worried about getting that would have exposed the Upside-Down Man too early? ![]()
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