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Article #621564Re: Old word processors
From: Carlos E.R.
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 13:02
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 13:02
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On 2018-03-24 13:33, J. Clarke wrote: > 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. I didn't notice any problem, but my PC was faster (Amstrad PC1512). -- Cheers, Carlos.
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