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by 1e-9 1535 days ago
> As the author mentions, the original moniker for Excel was VisiCalc

VisiCalc wasn't actually a moniker for Excel. It was a predecessor. It was the first spreadsheet program, which was made by a different company, VisiCorp, and released in 1979. Excel was developed by Microsoft and released in 1985. Prior to Excel, Microsoft had released an earlier spreadsheet called Multiplan in 1982.

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True. Also Excel was a clone of Lotus 1-2-3, not VisiCalc, as it copied its macro language too.