I learned spreadsheeting in Lotus 1-2-3 on DOS in the early '90s. It is so fast and super powerful. I still use the 1-2-3 keystrokes in Excel to this day (an option that I'm both infinitely pleased and super shocked still exists, Microsoft actually did something right!)

If anyone out there knows how to obtain Lotus and get it running in Linux, please please let me know!

Because, not to put too fine a point on it, sc, sc-im and oleo are completely useless without months of self-training, and even then... meh.

If you no longer have the ability to read your floppies or CD-ROMs you can find them on archive.org fairly easily. I'd imagine the DOS version would run in DOSBox fairly easily. For the Windows version, wine is reported to work https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio....

Emacs (Org mode) supports spreadsheets. https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/#Spreadsheet

It is so convenient that there is orgtbl-mode which allows Org tables even outside Org files https://youtu.be/EQAd41VAXWo

I've been using sc-im for a few months, and I like it a lot. It crashes here and there (not wonderful) so I wish it were a little more robust, but it doesn't corrupt your files when it does so it's just some work lost (save early, save often). But otherwise, it's powerful and ergonomic for Vim users, so checks all my boxes haha.

Looking at terminal applications.

I remember my dad used to say FoxPro was the best in DOS after Visual FoxPro it didn't pick up. Large applications could be built simply in FoxPro and perfomance was really good.

Quattro Pro for DOS was an amazing spreadsheet tool, better than 1-2-3 IMO. Looks like this article arrived at the same conclusion.

Great dataset ;) the next spreadsheets should yield factory productivity datas

Wordperfect (5?) and Lotus 1-2-3 were the first real computer programs I learned.

It's missing VisiCalc. Perhaps it only considers those running on x86.

Interestingly Dab Bricklin the creator of VisiCalc built a web based spreadsheet called SocialCalc which was then eventually evolved into EtherCalc.

To download and emulate VisiCalc: http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm

there is also As-Easy-As (DOS) was shareware till its author released as freeware..