🚀 go-pugleaf

On 2018-03-18 19:24, Dave Garland wrote:
> On 3/18/2018 8:51 AM, Kerr-Mudd,John wrote:
> 
>> At a PPOE the secretaries had to use PC's with DisplayWrite (I,II, 3, 4 )
>> It was 'oribble to a simple programmer like me, used to a program editor.
>> Text saved in EBCDIC. The only feature that appealed was "cursor-draw".
>>
> The DisplayWriter was a fine WP station. It had a Selectric-quality
> keyboard, a good (albeit monochrome and character) display, and could
> keep up with the fastest typist. There obviously wasn't any
> "cursor-draw", since there was no mouse, but a typist doesn't need that
> anyhow. The software was solid, saving was pretty much automatic, and I
> don't think I ever saw a D'wr crash.
> 
> DisplayWrite was their attempt to recreate that experience for a PC. It
> was pretty klunky, and having what was usually a crappy keyboard and a
> monochrome monitor (CGA for WP would rot your eyeballs out) that
> couldn't handle the symbol characters didn't help. IBM obviously didn't
> know what to do when they no longer had control over the hardware.
> WordPerfect did things much better (aside from the tendency to assign
> functions to F, shift-F, ^F, and alt-F keys in what seemed to be random
> order).

WordStar on the other hand was designed for touch typists. But they
undid that when they designed new versions with different keys (wordstar
2000?)

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Cheers, Carlos.