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It's obvious they were competing with other spreadsheets of their time (QuattroPro).

Lotus 1-2-3 was still king of the (spreadsheet) hill back then. Borland was trying to compete but could never get their act together.

Lotus 1-2-3's UI was nowhere modern/polished as QuattroPro. Of course they had a hold of the user base.

Ah yes, the old slash key commands are still burned into my brain..along with the formatting key combinations for WordStar.