11 Facts About Borland Quattro

For years Borland Quattro Pro had a comparative advantage, in regard to maximum row and column limits.

Original Borland Quattro electronic spreadsheet was a DOS program, the initial development of which was done by three Eastern Europeans, one of whom, the Hungarian Lajos Frank, was later hired by Microsoft.

Borland Quattro was written in assembly language and Turbo C, principally by Adam Bosworth, Lajos Frank, and Chuck Batterman.

Borland Quattro acquired a replacement product called "Surpass", written in Modula-2.

The main designers and programmers of Surpass were hired by Borland to turn Surpass into Quattro Pro: Bob Warfield, Dave Anderson, Weikuo Liaw, Bob Richardson and Tod Landis.

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Borland Quattro Pro finished final quality assurance testing and was sent to manufacturing from those computers running on the tennis courts in the sunny and dry autumn weather.

Some have claimed that Borland Quattro Pro was the first to use the tabbed notebook metaphor, but another spreadsheet, Boeing Calc, used tabs to multiple sheets, and allowed three-dimensional references before Borland Quattro Pro was on the market.

Borland Quattro argued that most cars operate the same, but they are not necessarily made the same.

Borland Quattro sold the spreadsheet to Novell six months before the final decision was handed down.

Borland Quattro Pro began as a DOS program but with the growing popularity of Windows from Microsoft, a Windows version of Borland Quattro needed to be written.

Borland Quattro purchased DataPivot from Brio Technology to add a new feature to the program.