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Article #621451Re: Old word processors
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 19:41
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 19:41
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On 3/19/2018 12:46 PM, Dave Garland wrote: > On 3/19/2018 10:09 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote: > >> WordStar on the other hand was designed for touch typists. But they >> undid that when they designed new versions with different keys (wordstar >> 2000?) >> > I personally thought WordStar 4 was the acme of perfection for PCs, > though the Displaywriter was better. WordPerfect was very popular with > business in the US, in part due to their exceptionally good telephone > support and aftermarket add-ons for the medical and legal professions. > The F-key orientaton slowed me down, but I never used it for production > typing. In the Windows era all of them deteriorated, and required taking > your hand off the keyboard to (which slows touch typists down a lot, and > occasionally resulted in entire paragraphs of gibberish due to their > hand ending up one key off of where it should be) to use the mouse. I > think that the people who marketed and wrote software were hunt-and-peck > typists, and probably correctly assumed that the people who purchased > the software were as well. The people who had to use it, not so much, > back then. > Once there was a "rumor" that the company that owned WordPerfect... actually *lost* the source code for it!!! The whole source code for the program had to bw re-written. -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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