Lotus Development' ssuccessor to their Lotus 1-2-3spreadsheet. Unlike 1-2-3, symphony allowed a limited form of multitasking. The user could switch manually between it and Ms-DOs and separate graph and spreadsheet windows could be opened simultaneously and would be updated automatically when cells were changed. In addition, a small word processor could be opened in a third window. These all could be printed out on the same report. symphony could read and write Lotus 1-2-3 files and had interactive graphical output and a word processor, thus making it effectively a report generator. Unlike 1-2-3, symphony was not a great commercial success. (1995-03-28)