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somattoday at 4:37 AM1 replyview on HN

Teapot is pretty great, it's too bad there is close to zero room for real innovation in the spreadsheet domain. For the most part if it's not spreadsheeting how prophet Dan Bricklin envisioned, people don't want it.

See also: lotus improv

Actually... on that note I realized have never tried lotus improv.

I found a copy of the win3.1 version here. https://archive.org/details/lotus-improv-2.0-for-windows-2.0...

But my plan is to go for the full nerd experiance and see if I can get the nextstep version to work. https://winworldpc.com/download/7c521434-e280-a0e2-82ac-11c3...

Which will require a NeXT machine emulator https://previous.nextcommunity.net/

Wish me luck.


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einrtoday at 7:09 AM

The easy way to accomplish this is to just launch a NeXTstep box in your browser from https://infinitemac.org/

I don’t know if they have Improv pre-installed, but it will let you mount disk images from your computer.

(Personally I find the easy way too easy, so I have NeXT^WOpenSTEP installed on bare metal on a 5x86 box. But that’s me)