Lotus Magellan

Lotus Magellan was a running under MS- DOS desktop search program that had been developed by Bill Gross and published by the Lotus Development Corporation in the 1980s. Despite its vaunted efficiency is Magellan could not compete in the market, which was probably due also to the at that time still very small hard drives.

Magellan searched through all the files and folders of a storage medium ( hard disk drive or floppy disk) and produced a central index structure, which made it possible to view the files without starting the relevant applications because it could not read most of contemporary file formats and interpret.

Magellan was one of several relevant programs of Lotus software (for example, Lotus 1-2-3, Lotus Notes and Office software for the Apple Macintosh ), which could, despite their recognized usefulness and significant market shares do not prevent the company in 1995 by IBM has been adopted. The old DOS-based Lotus software Magellan, Lotus Agenda, HAL (an extension for Lotus 1-2-3 ) and Lotus Manuscript have since been released as freeware.