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From: Charles Richmond
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 05:53

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On 3/23/2018 2:36 PM, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
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> 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.
> 

Try using Wordstar under CP/M on a 4 megahertz Z80 machine...

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numerist at aquaporin4 dot com

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