a spreadsheet program for a wide variety of usesMatrix, 356KbThere are, of course, limitations to Matrix. Excel and other professional spreadsheets offer built-in graphing capabilities. Matrix doesn't-- you'll have to make them yourself or trasfer the data to a graphing program. Also, Matrix has its own file format which no other spreadsheet program understands, and it can't read any other format. However, your spreadsheet can be saved to a text file (by redirecting the print output, see the excellent instruction manual) and cut and pasted into other spreadsheet programs, your word processor, or graphing app. System Requirements:A math coprocessor is required. All Pentium and higher computers have them. 486DX computers do too. 486SX, 386DX, and 386SX computers have them only if the 487/387 coprocessor chip has been added to the motherboard. Trying to run Matrix will tell you if you have one.Using Matrix on a 386 or 486 requires special considerations, otherwise it runs too slow. You should either (1) limit the size of the spreadsheet by reducing the memory available to matrix or (2) turn off auto-calc (which recalcs the entire spreadsheet every time something changes). To reduce memory, edit the program's PIF file. |