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		wila on Oct 10, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Developer hiring and the market for lemons Not the OP, but I think you misunderstood. Excel was always a windows application that had the same functionality as lotus 123 that was a DOS application. So much so that the keyboard interface is still compatible. Actually what I remember is that Lotus killed itself by not having a windows version on time.

rbanffy on Oct 12, 2016 | [–]

> Lotus killed itself by not having a windows version on time.

They actually believed when Microsoft said OS/2 was the future. That probably killed some of their competitors.

smallnamespace on Oct 10, 2016 | [–]

I'm just curious what OP meant by 'cheating', if not that.

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