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Article #621562Re: Old word processors
From: J. Clarke
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 12:33
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 12:33
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On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 04:49:27 -0500, Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote: >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. Wordstar is a bad counterexample with regard to the PC though. It took a signfiicant performance hit going from CP/M to MS-DOS and if one's early PC experiences involved Wordstar on the PC one might have a false impression--Wordstar on the PC literally could not keep up with a fast typist. We had a big proposal to get out one time against a tight deadline and ended up using the PCs as terminals to a Z/80 CompuPro running Wordstar for CP/M because we were never going to get it out using Wordsar for MS-DOS on the PC.
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