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The design of an object-oriented collaborative spreadsheet with version control and history management

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David A. Fuller,

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SAC '93: Proceedings of the 1993 ACM/SIGAPP symposium on Applied computing: states of the art and practice

Pages 416 - 423

https://doi.org/10.1145/162754.162950

Published: 01 March 1993 Publication History

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