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Article #621464Re: Old word processors
From: hanc...
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 19:36
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 19:36
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On Sunday, March 18, 2018 at 2:24:46 PM UTC-4, Dave Garland wrote: > 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). IBM had multiple word processing products, and there were many others, too. We used IBM's Assistant Series. I don't think they were as popular, but IMHO they were very good. "Writing Assistant" was a powerful but easy to use tool. IMHO, the original IBM PC was too underpowered to properly support word processing, or indeed, much else. The 286 onward was a lot faster and thus easier to use. A lot of early programs obviously worked on the original PC, even with just floppies, but they ran slowly.
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