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From: JimP
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 23:43

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On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 17:27:15 -0400, Andreas Kohlbach
<a...@spamfence.net> wrote:

>On Sun, 25 Mar 2018 18:44:02 -0500, JimP wrote:
>>
>> I was finally able to remember/discover online, the name of the Amiga
>> word processor software: Final Writer. it was great, until I tried
>> printing. Then it was incredibly slow.
>
>That might depend on the printer used. Or that Final Writer is rendering
>the output on the fly and it takes a while to print. Was an ASCII file
>sent from a text editor to the printer faster?

I believe it was faster just plain text from an ASCII editor.

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