What is an abacus?
An abacus is a mechanical calculating tool, up to today used in Russia, Japan, Korea and China. See TkSoroban for an emulation of the Japanese kind.
Abacus
Abacus is a Tcl/Tk/C++/C spreadsheet developed for Linux. It supports graphics, printing, saving and loading different formats, cell editing, sorting, column and row manipulation, cell formats, undo/redo, formulas, and more.
The programming team (in Portugal) also references a tool called Abacus for the Palm Pilot; however I don't believe it has any Tcl/Tk connection.
- Updated: 02/2000
More info here
http://tahoe.inesc.pt/%7Eaml/abacus/abacus.html
The following link: http://www-cad.eecs.berkeley.edu/HomePages/aml/abacus/abacus.html is dead (as of May 4th 2007).
Try: [L1 ]
Contact
Mail to: [email protected]
- Friday May 4th 2007; I wrote them and my mail was returned. It seems that this E-mail address is inoperative. (Josh)
Old description on the Applications in Tcl and Tcl/Tk page
For number crunching and what ifs in Tcl/Tk plus C++ Extensions
- http://tahoe.inesc.pt/~aml/abacus/abacus.html
- The old link at http://www-cad.eecs.berkeley.edu/HomePages/aml/abacus/abacus.html is dead.
Comments
(josh) It would be fun to be able to play around with an exe Windows version of this program, compiled in this manner: See http://wiki.tcl.tk/11861 .
In fact this program is really complete. It has all sorts of spreadsheet functions built into it. The Portugal Tcl-Tk connection did really fine precision work!
However, I for one would be pretty happy to simply be able to create small unpretentious spreadsheets; I won't need all the sophistication Abacus has. Therefore a small -call it- Mini Abacus stripped of many functions and holding in a meg or so would do the job perfectly for me and I believe for many of us.