Jonathan Sachs (born June 25, 1947) is a programmer who co-founded Lotus Development Corporation with Mitch Kapor in 1982 and created the first version of the

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spreadsheet program. Sachs left Lotus in 1985 to develop photo-editing software for his own

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based company, Digital Light & Color, which has been distributing its product, Picture Window, since 1994. Sachs was born in

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and received his BS in math from

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in 1970. He later worked at MIT for several years, where he wrote the

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language, at

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, and at Concentric Data Systems.Oral history interview with Jonathan Sachs

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, University of Minnesota. 1-2-3 was known for its speed and efficiency. The original program was implemented in

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assembly language, rather than a higher level language such as C. It was also nearly bug-free, and introduced the letter hierarchical menus still used in Windows applications. Later versions of 1-2-3 were implemented in C, becoming much larger and more complex.

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1-2-3 Hits the Ground Running

Digital Light & Color
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sachs, Jonathan 1947 births Living people American computer businesspeople Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni

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