VisiCalc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisiCalc

by afhammad • 11 years ago

17 7 11 years ago

en.wikipedia.org

kyberias• 11 years ago

Yes, that is the Wikipedia page for a spreadsheet application called Visicalc.

edgarvm• 11 years ago

And yes, it's still available to download http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm

agumonkey3• 11 years ago

32k people. 32k.

beagle32• 11 years ago

Note that's the TOTAL ram required to run it - I'd assume most of it was actually taken by spreadsheet data.

agumonkey3• 11 years ago

I don't know what to think of this then "Bricklin and Frankston's original intention was to fit the program into 16k". To me it means the program binary couldn't fit in 16k, so I'd assume the code was between 16k and 32k. Supposing the largest manageable spreadsheet being 26 cols * 1K rows, filled with 2 bytes, that's ~5kB of user data.

Anyway, if they managed to write a useful spreadsheet in 20kB it's even better.

VisiCalc

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