Symphony

tool, product 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)