Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Sachs left Lotus in 1985 and now develops photo-editing software for his own Cambridge, Massachusetts based company, Digital Light & Color, which has been distributing its product, Picture Window, since 1994. Sachs was born in Baltimore, Maryland and received his Bachelor of Science in math from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970. He later worked at Massachusetts Institute of Technology for several years, where he wrote the STOIC language, at Data General, and at Concentric Data Systems.
1-2-3 was notable for its speed and efficiency.
The original program was implemented in the assembly language of the Personal Computer (Intel 8088), as opposed to a higher level language such as C. lieutenant was also nearly bug-free, and introduced the letter hierarchical menus still used in Windows applications. Later versions of 1-2-3 would be implemented in C and were much larger and more complex.
