Lotus Symphony was an integrated software package for creating and editing text, spreadsheets, charts and other documents on DOS operating systems. It was released by Lotus Development as a follow-on to its popular spreadsheet program, Lotus 1-2-3 and was produced from 1984-1992. Lotus Jazz on the Apple Macintosh was a sibling product. IBM revived the name Lotus Symphony in 2007 for a new office suite based on OpenOffice.org, but the two programs...
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Lotus Symphony was an integrated software package for creating and editing text, spreadsheets, charts and other documents on DOS operating systems. It was released by Lotus Development as a follow-on to its popular spreadsheet program, Lotus 1-2-3 and was produced from 1984-1992. Lotus Jazz on the Apple Macintosh was a sibling product. IBM revived the name Lotus Symphony in 2007 for a new office suite based on OpenOffice.org, but the two programs are otherwise unrelated.
Lotus 1-2-3 had originally been billed as an integrated product with spreadsheet, database and graphing functions (hence the name "1-2-3"). Other products described as "integrated" such as AppleWorks normally included word processor functionality. Symphony was Lotus' response.
Symphony for DOS is a program that loads entirely into memory on startup, and can run as a DOS task on versions of Microsoft Windows (3.x/95/98/ME). Using ALT-F10 the user can alternate among the five "environments" of the program, each a...
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