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Article #621469Re: Old word processors
From: Andrew Swallow
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 19:31
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 19:31
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On 24/03/2018 12:30, J. Clarke wrote:
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> I don't know why you think that word processing needs any great deal
> of computer power--Wordstar ran fine on my 8-bit CP/M machine, better
> than it did on the PC.
There was a big increase in word processing speed when PCs had
sufficient ram to keep the spelling checker's dictionary in store.
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