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On 2018-03-24 01:36, J. Clarke wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 12:36:27 -0700 (PDT), hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> The machine was not too slow.  It worked fine with Word Perfect,
> Multimate, and Word.  It didn't work very well with Wordstar because
> the developers did a half-assed job of porting it.

Are you sure you used those on an original IBM PC at 4Mhz?
I think they appeared much later.

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Cheers, Carlos.