Symphony
{Lotus Development}'s successor to their
{Lotus 1-2-3} spreadsheet. Unlike 1-2-3, Symphony allowed a
limited form of {multitasking}. The user could switch
manually between it and {MS-DOS} and separate graph and
spreadsheet windows could be opened simultaneously and would
be updated automatically when cells were changed. In
addition, a small word processor could be opened in a third
window. These all could be printed out on the same report.
Symphony could read and write Lotus 1-2-3 files and had
interactive graphical output and a word processor, thus making
it effectively a report generator. Unlike 1-2-3, Symphony was
not a great commercial success.
(1995-03-28)