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Article #621561Re: Old word processors
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 09:49
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 09:49
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On 3/24/2018 3:25 AM, Andreas Eder wrote: > On Sa 24 Mär 2018 at 00:53, Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote: > >> Try using Wordstar under CP/M on a 4 megahertz Z80 machine... > > It worked quite well. Iused it for years on an Osborne I. > I mentioned Wordstar because Mr. Hancock was complaining that the original IBM PC did not have the horsepower to run a word processor well. Wordstar was a counter-example, as I thought the original IBM PC had a more powerful, faster processor than a 4 megahertz Z80... and the Z80 handled word processing well using Wordstar. -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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