Far faster than its competition, such as SuperCalc and Microsofts first spreadsheet, MultiPlan, Lotus 1-2-3 would become both IBMs and Microsofts first killer app. With the opening of the Intel architecture and MS-DOS to IBM PC clones, Lotus 1-2-3 became the essential application for the 1980s PC revolution.
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