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From: JimP
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 17:35

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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.

I remember a word processor for the Sinclair ZX-81 with the 16Kb ram
pack, but I don't know how well, or bad, it worked.

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