Successors
Charles Babcock of InformationWeek wrote that, in retrospect, "VisiCalc was flawed and clunky, and couldn't do many things users wanted it to do." A host of other spreadsheet programs appeared with more sophisticated features, including the CP/M-based Supercalc (1980), Lotus 1-2-3 (1983), Microsoft Multiplan (1983), Appleworks (1984), and Microsoft Excel (1985). The original Visicalc quickly became obsolete and was discontinued by 1983 while Lotus 1-2-3 became the dominant spreadsheet program on PC compatibles before the Windows era. Wes Hubert created Basicalc in June 1983 as a no-frills spreadsheet for the Zenith 100 in Zbasic.
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